Bo Ben (played by Yuzo Kayama), a newly graduated medical student, comes to the remote and poor Koishikawa Clinic for an internship upon his father's [Expand All]
Bo Ben (played by Yuzo Kayama), a newly graduated medical student, comes to the remote and poor Koishikawa Clinic for an internship upon his father's introduction. His teacher is a quirky doctor known as Redbeard (played by Toshiro Mifune). At first, Boben, who yearned for Nagasaki, was extremely disgusted with this slum and vented his anger on Redbeard, feeling deceived and having no place to show his abilities. Redbeard is a well-known medical expert in this area. He has no demands for breaking even but practices medicine quietly, unafraid of the powerful and without expecting any remuneration. The number of patients he has cured is countless, including a young woman who was mentally deranged due to abuse (Kagawa Kyoko Ky?). (Played by ko Kagawa), a drunkard with numbness on one side due to excessive drinking, a prostitute with a venereal disease who was sold to a brothel, and so on. In the process of helping Redbeard save lives and heal the wounded, Bao Ben gradually discovered the importance of medical ethics and corrected his attitude towards life...[Collapse]
