Kurosawa's "Red Beard:" his best?
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Posted by tinear on February 22, 2006 at 17:42:25
To me, this film is his masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time. Fittingly, it is the last collaboration between Toshiro Mifune and Akiro.
The story seems soap-opera/melodramatic: young, attractive, ambitious doctor rebels when assigned to a medical clinic serving the poor and run by a gruff, no nonsense medical director.
But the beauty of the film is in how Kurosawa weaves so many recogizable tales in his inimitably human way and leaves us greatly caring for--- almost loving--- the characters.
Few films can touch one so and, just possibly, change the course of a life.
Like the highest achievements in other art forms, such as Michaelangelo's St. Theresa or a late period Beethoven sonata, one can only marvel as one is swept away to a better world.
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Kurosawa's "Red Beard:" his best? - tinear 17:42:25 02/22/06
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