Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideyo Amamoto, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yôko Naitô, Yoshiro Uchida
The story is about the conflict between the Korean painter Yoshihide and his hard-hearted Japanese master Horikawa. Horikawa asks him to paint a picture of Buddha on the wall of his new temple, but he refuses and...
