Red Beard (赤ひげ)

A TOHO-KUROSAWA PRODUCTION

RED BEARD

Executive Producers TOMOYUKI TANAKA, RYUZO KIKUSHIMA

Original Story by SHUGORO YAMAMOTO

Photography by ASAICHI NAKAI and TAKAO SAITO

Starring:

TOSHIRO MIFUNE

YUZO KAYAMA TSUTOMU YAMAZAKI

REIKO DAN, MIYUKI KUWANO, KYOKO KAGAWA

Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA

KOSHIKAWA CLINIC

I'm Noboru Yasumoto.

Yasumoto?

I know. I'll take him.

I'm Genzo Tsugawa.

I've been waiting for you.

With you here, I can leave.

You're taking my place.

I was just told to call.

You were in Nagasaki? For how long?

Just over three years.

It's terrible here.

You'll have to stay and see for yourself.

The patients are slum people, full of fleas and lice.

They even smell bad.

We don't get much money.

And Red Beard is after us night and day.

Red Beard?

The head doctor. His beard is sort of reddish.

It's really terrible here.

Being here makes you wonder why you wanted to be a doctor.

It smells like rotten fruit.

It's the smell of the poor.

The waiting room for outpatients.

They're treated for free in the afternoons.

I don't know.

All of them would be better off dead.

This way.

The pharmacy.

The clinic.

The men's wards.

Over there, the women's wards.

Is there no tatami?

No. Our rooms are all the same.

Same as a prison.

Yes, even our clothes are like this.

It's all right for us men.

But even poor women are women.

They should wear something brighter.

I'd hate to die in this.

These clothes...

They show dirt.

They're easy to wash.

So, you see, we can always stay clean.

You smelled when you came here,

but it's not so bad now.

You owe it all to your clothes.

See?

You shouldn't talk.

Red Beard said so, didn't he?

If you don't mind him, you'll spit up blood again.

We're better off dead.

Too poor to even buy medicine!

But when I die, I'd like to die on tatami!

Even the poorest have tatami.

It's bad for us.

You see,

tatami catches all the dirt and moisture.

That's why –

Sahachi,

if you don't keep quiet,

you'll really die.

Are these things the rule here?

Red Beard's rules.

He's the dictator here.

A good doctor, dedicated to his work.

Many daimyo and rich people trust him.

But he's stubborn, inconsiderate, radical,

and proud.

Beyond here are our quarters.

The south side gets the sun. That's for the patients.

The damp north side is for us.

The patients' service room.

The kitchen.

We eat here. It's called the dining room.

We must not eat or drink in our rooms.

They're all Red Beard's rules.

We are to have no heat except in the wards.

Red Beard says the cold here is good for us.

And there's not enough money to buy coal except for the wards.

Red Beard's room.

I brought Dr. Yasumoto!

Come in.

I'm Noboru Yasumoto.

Red Beard.

My real name's hard to pronounce –

Kyojo Niide.

You'll start as an intern today.

But I –

Wait. Father only said to call on you.

You'll stay here.

Bring me all the notes and drawings you made at Nagasaki.

They are at home.

I'll go back and –

No, your things will be here soon.

That's all. Show him his room.

I'm Handayu Mori.

It's pretty difficult here.

But if you want, you can learn a lot.

Useful in the future.

Let's work together.

I won't be cooped up here!

I studied to serve the shogunate!

I was to be the shogun's doctor!

And it's –

Please listen!

My father's a doctor. Dr. Amano's his friend.

He's the shogun's personal doctor?

Yes, he helped me to go study in Nagasaki.

He said he'd recommend me.

Then why did this happen?

I don't know. I just don't understand.

It's –

A mix-up somewhere.

Even with Dr. Amano's backing, this still happened,

so you'd better make the best of it.

We knew you were coming two weeks ago.

It seems he likes you.

He's unfriendly to people he likes.

Not me. He never finds fault with me.

He ignores me completely.

I won't do as he says.

It's some sort of trick.

I'm leaving, no matter what Red Beard says.

We are under the jurisdiction of the magistrate's office here.

And it has appointed you officially.

You can't hide or run away.

Thanks to you, I can go.

I'll take you to your room.

I mean, we share it until I leave.

Excuse me.

He's quite a genius, but we don't get along well.

This is our room.

Your things are here already.

Where are you going?

Running away will make trouble!

She's worse again and I'm out of medicine!

Please make me some.

Only Red Beard does that. He's in his room.

Dr. Yasumoto!

KOSHIKAWA CLINIC HERB GARDEN

No one's allowed in here.

Only Red Beard.

Osugi's different.

She's a nurse.

Is that a ward too?

The girl's father built it himself.

She's a special patient.

The whole house is a prison.

Osugi has the key and no one gets in.

The girl isn't let out either.

She's called "the mantis."

It's a good nickname.

The female eats the male after they mate.

She'd do the same thing.

No one knows who she is,

but it seems she's the daughter of a merchant.

She killed three clerks there.

She'd seduce them first.

When they'd get excited over her,

she'd stab them with a hairpin.

Had they ever done anything to her?

Red Beard says she was just born that way.

An hysterical condition rather than insanity.

It's really a pity.

She's very beautiful.

Why don't you eat, Yasumoto?

I don't want to!

Does it mean you're not hungry or that the food doesn't suit you?

It means this place doesn't suit me.

Even bad food tastes good if you chew it well.

Same with our work here, if you try hard.

I hear your things are here. Why don't you bring me your notes?

I refuse.

Refuse? Why?

I studied Dutch medicine, developing my own diagnoses and cures.

They are mine and not for others!

Medical knowledge belongs to everyone.

Doctors get rich just by curing cataracts.

We don't gossip here.

Bring me your notes and change into your uniform.

Go and get me some sake!

We don't drink sake here.

That's why I'll drink!

I'll break every rule!

No uniform.

I'll be such a nuisance, he'll ask me to leave.

Get me some sake!

You're a nuisance.

Don't you understand?