The structure is overwhelmingly linear: a Bildungsroman about a newly qualified but ambitious young doctor, Noboru Yasumoto (Yūzō Kayama), sent to pay a visit to a hospital run by Dr Niide (the great ...

It's the early nineteenth century, and young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto has been summoned for a reason unknown to him to rural Koishikawa Medical Clinic from Nagasaki, where he has been stationed for three ...

Akira Kurosawa’s “Red Beard” marks a fascinating transition point in his career. Produced in 1965, it was his final black-and-white feature. It was also the last time he worked with his iconic ...

This last collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune was released in 1965, and it’s a three-hour episodic super-soap opera about the emotional education of a callow young ...