Akahige = Red Beard / a Tōhō-Kurosawa production ; kantoku, Akira Kurosawa.

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Issued also as VHS 1/2 in. Young doctor fresh from study of the latest in Western medicine in Nagasaki is assigned to an impoverished clinic rather than the court of the Shogun as he had hoped. At first rebellious against the seemingly autocratic ways of the clinic's head, he is won over by the wisd...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Criterion collection.
Corporate Authors: Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Cinematheque Collection (Firm)
Kurosawa Purodakushon
Other Authors: Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
Kayama, Yūzō, 1937-
Dan, Reiko
Yamamoto, Shūgorō, 1903-1967
Language:Japanese
English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by the Voyager Co., [1991], ©1991.
Series:Criterion collection.
Subjects:
Feature films.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 in.
Variant Title:
Red Beard [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Issued also as VHS 1/2 in.
Young doctor fresh from study of the latest in Western medicine in Nagasaki is assigned to an impoverished clinic rather than the court of the Shogun as he had hoped. At first rebellious against the seemingly autocratic ways of the clinic's head, he is won over by the wisdom and compassion he experiences.
Note:Extended CLV.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Letterbox format.
Based on: Akahige shinryōtan / Yamamoto Shugorō.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.
A foreign film (Japan).
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.J34 K8734 1991 Video (12 inch) disc
ISBN:155940079X
Credits:Photographers, Asaichi Nakai, Takao Saitō ; music, Masaru Satō.
Cast:
Toshiro Mifune, Yōzō Kayama, Reiko Dan, Tsutoma Yanazaki.