---
title: 'Red Beard (1965)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Akira Kurosawa'
released: '1965-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 185
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/red-beard-1965'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058888/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Red Beard (1965)

1965 · 185 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 赤ひげ

## Synopsis

Red Beard  is a 1965 Japanese period drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, in his last collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1959 short story collection, Akahige Shinryōtan, the film takes place in Koishikawa, a district of Edo, towards the end of the Tokugawa period, and is about the relationship between a town doctor and his new trainee. Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Humiliated and Insulted provided the source for a subplot about a young girl, Otoyo, who is rescued from a brothel.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Hideo Oguni](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideo-oguni), [Ryūzō Kikushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryuzo-kikushima), [Masato Ide](https://cinepixo.com/people/masato-ide)
- **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Producer:** [Ryūzō Kikushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryuzo-kikushima), [Tomoyuki Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomoyuki-tanaka)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Masaru Sato](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaru-sato)
- **Director of Photography:** [Takao Saito](https://cinepixo.com/people/takao-saito), [Asakazu Nakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/asakazu-nakai)

## Cast

- [Yoshio Tsuchiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshio-tsuchiya)
- [Noriko Honma](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-honma)
- [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinuyo-tanaka)
- [Terumi Niki](https://cinepixo.com/people/terumi-niki)
- [Kin Sugai](https://cinepixo.com/people/kin-sugai)
- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Haruko Sugimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruko-sugimura)
- [Chishū Ryū](https://cinepixo.com/people/chishu-ryu)
- [Bokuzen Hidari](https://cinepixo.com/people/bokuzen-hidari)
- [Reiko Dan](https://cinepixo.com/people/reiko-dan)
- [Kyōko Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyoko-kagawa)
- [Yūzō Kayama](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuzo-kayama)
- [Tsutomu Yamazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsutomu-yamazaki)
- [Kamatari Fujiwara](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamatari-fujiwara)
- [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/red-beard-1965
Film facts: Wikidata (Q847709); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.