Japanese master director Akira Kurosawa’s films are renowned for their humanism, and Red Beard (1965) marks the apotheosis of this approach. The story of an arrogant young doctor who learns the value ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Red Beard (1965) — a sadly overlooked and underrated film — is of great historical note in the career of Akira Kurosawa. It would ...

The vast majority of Kurosawa's best films are focussed on the kindness of strangers and the virtues of humankind, and in that vein Red Beard is one of the director's finest and most compassionate ...

The shooting schedule for master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa s Red Beard (1965), a period medical drama, stretched over two years, a then-unprecedented amount of time to make a movie. The charismatic ...