Review of Red Beard (1965) by Roshan S — 19 Jun 2007
Sadly, this film marks the end of the mifune-kurosawa collaboration. they fell out over the long production of this film, which ran to two years. they didn't speak for many after, and only shortly reconciled before mifune died.
However, the impression given is that kurosawa is at the height of his art. in the long 3 hours, not a shot is wasted, everything is under his control. mifune is his usual inscrutable superhero.
Characters, stories are teased out with delicacy. what this perhaps lacks compared to other kurosawa films is passion and drama, but even then it is all bubbling here. that may well be the point in this story about understated heroism.
This film has so many 'issues' for medical humanists it must be seen.
This review of Red Beard (1965) was written by Roshan S on 19 Jun 2007.
Red Beard has generally received very positive reviews.
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