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Actors:
Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Terumi Niki, Akemi Negishi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Eijirô Tôno, Takashi Shimura, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kinuyo Tanaka,

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In 1820, young Dr. Yasumoto, returned to Edo after graduating from Dutch medical school in Nagasaki. He presented himself at the public clinic managed by Dr. Niide ( Toshiro Mifune ), aka Akahige ( Red Beard ) because of the color of his beard, thinking it was a courtesy call arranged by his father, also a physician .

It turned out he was expected to work there for a while. Yasumoto didn’t find anything to his liking. All doctors’ bedroom were not on the sunny side ( that was for the patients ), there’s no heat & no tatami ( Japanese comfortable bedding ). Extremely upset & frustrated because he had hoped to find a prestigious post as a shogun’s personal physician, Yasumoto rebelled by not doing what he was supposed to do. He didn’t wear the doctor’s uniform, he lied on the lawn in front of an isolated ward reserved for a murderous female mental patient ( where he was already warned not to come near by ). He hated the food, drank sake though it’s not permitted, found the patients stank ( which one of his colleague at the clinic called ” the smell of poverty “). In short, he’s too good for this under-funded public clinic. He obviously hoped his immature benavior would have earned his own dismissal by Dr. Niide.

One night, the mental patient escaped from her ward & while Dr. Niide & nurse Osugi went out looking for her, the Mantis ( the mental patient’s nickname ) showed up in Yasumoto’s bedroom. She told Yasumoto the story of her life, how men had raped her many times since she was 9 year old & they threatened to kill her if she ever denounced them. After a few years, she had enough of all the sexual abuse and killed three men ( thus the name Mantis). During the course of the conversation, she managed to seduce Yasumoto but with intention to kill. Dr. Niide came back in time to save the young doctor & excused him for being drunk & for his weakness, as all other men, in front of pretty women. According to Dr. Niide, the Mantis was just born that way

Little by little, Yasumoto started to integrate into the workforce at the clinic. For his 1st assistance in the operating room, he couldn’t stand it & fainted. Yasumoto discovered Dr. Niide, eventhough looked stern & appeared difficult, had a kind heart. He managed to get a bit of money to help a patient’s destitude daughter with 3 small children ( the old man just passed away before her arrival ). He gave her 5 ryos ( 1 gold ryo = USD$150 today ). Later he said that he was able to get that money from the magistrate & also got him to drop charges against her for attacking her husband. Gradually, Yasumoto started to put on the uniform.

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