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This week's Staff Pick: Red Beard (1965)  Director: Akira Kurosawa Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki Summary: "In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern." Akira Kurosawa is probably my favorite director of all time, and that's not even close to a controversial statement. He had an incredible talent and a level of perfectionism and a lust for a certain type of realism that's difficult to imagine existing in modern cinema (one of the most famous stories about him is that he decided that fake arrows wouldn't look convincing enough at the end of Throne of Blood, so he hired skilled archers to fire actual arrows at Mifune) and found the perfect leading man for his style early in his career (Toshiro Mifune, who played Sanjuro in Yojimbo, Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai, and the bandit in Rashomon). They made 16 movies together, and both said separately that they were the greatest movies of their respective careers. Red Beard is the last of those movies. I'm going off of loose summaries here because I haven't seen it (which is why I picked it), so if I gently caress up any of the details please bear with me. The movie centers on an arrogant young doctor named Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) who is forced to intern at a medical clinic devoted to treating the poor of rural Japan and resents everything about the posting. The director of the clinic is Dr. Niide (Mifune), who is gruff, abrupt, patient, and dedicated to the people he cares for. By all accounts this is one of Kurosawa and Mifune's best movies, so just loving check it out. It's in the Criterion Collection, it's up on Filmstruck, and it's probably some other places if you want to find it there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Staff Picks Archives January 31st, 2017: Cure February 7th, 2017: Westfront 1918 February 14th, 2017: John Wick February 21st, 2017: Red Sorghum February 28th, 2017: God of Gamblers March 7th, 2017: The Autopsy of Jane Doe March 14th, 2017: Perfect Blue March 21st, 2017: Spring Breakers March 28th, 2017: Cemetery of Splendor April 20th, 2017: Parallax View April 27th, 2017: Right Now, Wrong Then May 02th 2017: Stalker May 12th 2017: White God
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This is a real cool movie, I watched it sometime last year and I'll probably do it again. Mifune is basically Peace Walker-era Big Boss in this movie.
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May 20, 2017 15:48
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Gonna watch this on the weekend since it's a 180 mins one!
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Just watched it. An incredibly moving picture, probably Kurosawa's most inspiring movie about human kindness and empathy.
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havent watched it yet but i will probbly tomorrow night. do we have a movie for this week yyet?
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I forgot to do one because I was busy this weekend. I'll just wait for the next weekend at this rate, it will probably be a fassbinder movie
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May 29, 2017 20:32
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In Training posted:I forgot to do one because I was busy this weekend. I'll just wait for the next weekend at this rate, it will probably be a fassbinder movie do Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
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May 29, 2017 20:49
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In Training posted:I forgot to do one because I was busy this weekend. I'll just wait for the next weekend at this rate, it will probably be a fassbinder movie Time for Assassin's Creed to become MOTW
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May 29, 2017 22:08
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discount cathouse posted:do Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3822374 
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