Red Beard

“What is the key to life - power, prestige or peace?”

Noboru Yasumoto (Yūzō Kayama) finishes medical school expecting a comfortable post as physician to a wealthy family. Instead he is sent to a small country clinic in Edo run by Red Beard (Toshirō Mifune), a gruff doctor who has no patience for his sulking. Akira Kurosawa gives the young man's stubbornness a long hearing, and what the doctor teaches him is that medicine means staying with people who have nothing to pay you.