Healing Both Heart and Body | discussing therapy in Kurosawa's Red Beard

[@mylittlethoughttree]

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[@Arttective]

Lmao

[@uncafecitofrio]

you have a nice voice , needs to acknowledged more

[@bold810]

"'At's allrigh, Man- you can't fix the Unbroken.." 😅😁😁✌️🎉

[@bold810]

Thank you. I have been a fan of Kurosawa all my life. I'm 56 now. What you said about Kindness resonates with me. There was a theme of Kindness and acceptance in his Movies.. to me, it made him the Most Human of Directors. So much more to say, words can't always express ourselves in the manner most appropriate. 😂😅😢🎉

[@SquareyCircley]

Your best video yet. I thought I was gonna cry watching it. So much growth and healing in a film. The acting is brilliant, especially from that girl. Gives me a new appreciation for Kurosawa too. Thanks!

[@gabe-a-ghoul691]

Haven’t even watched the video yet, but glad to see you again! Stay safe, happy and healthy, that applies to everyone who reads this

[@bold810]

Thank you. Happy New Year!🎉

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

Thank you. Saw Red Beard and the Seven Samurai on a double bill in an arthouse cinema sometime in the 1980s. When the movie started it was very late. I got so caught up in it. It is like sitting in a very comfortable armchair. Such a beautiful film. It is my favourite film. Even today after all these years it touches me when I watch the dvd. Glad you enjoyed it too.

[@maxcasteel2141]

It's tragic how few of Kurosawa's films I've seen, especially since what I've seen is all in my top movies of all time. I've never even heard of Red Beard but I am definitely going to try to find it now, that looked so heartfelt, I got emotional just watching this video. I think it's interesting when you see something like this from that time, when it doesn't feel like mental health was often talked about, and yet some people managed to have such deep insights into it. Thank you for the video :)

[@stevesearlsspeaks8931]

I'd also highly recommend Ikiru if you haven't seen that, as well as Rashomon, Dersu Uzula and The Lower Depths to name some of his best non-Samurai films. Of course you also find the same themes running through many of his Samurai films, such as the characters in The Seven Samurai, and the third son Saburo in Ran (Kurosawa's take on King Lear).

[@jayxavier6930]

@@stevesearlsspeaks8931 Intriguing how, apart from Ikiru and Rashomon, it's his historical action or samurai-themed action epics that get duly appreciated, albeit at the sad expense of his social dramas and crime dramas. And I'd also give a shout out to Stray Dog.

[@lise4369]

I got super emotional watching this video too. 😭 I'm looking for this movie and watching it with my kids.

[@lifeandstories_]

Great video, guys. This film is definitely highly underrated, like so many of Kurosawa's non-samurai films.

[@loonie5468]

I absolutely loved both of your inputs on this one. I seriously doubt I could've gotten this kind of reflection anywhere else and glad to see Kurosawa's full range moreso promoted, rather than just the movies that he is most known for (great though those are as well).

[@Ran2Chaos]

First saw this movie in my teens when my father bought a whole bunch of Kurosawa movies from Thailand (believe they were pirated). I loved the humanity of this movie and love your analysis of it.

[@aaronmarshall7497]

This video is fantastic. I haven't seen this movie yet but I am definitely going to now! Please keep making more videos!

[@knarftahw]

I don't know why but the "You Hussy" part really brought a big smile to my face.

[@Ran2Chaos]

My favorite Kurosawa film

[@Ran2Chaos]

What I love about this film, if you look at Kurosawa’s oeuvre you notice a lot of sad and bleak endings, the good guys lose a lot of the time or win but are not unscathed by the experience. I’m thinking the Bad Sleep Well or Ikiru with the bureaucrats looking at the actions being done by the protagonist as one of madness. I felt drowned by this pessimism, but here in Red Beard, the ending with the young child and hospital workers yelling into a well it was so cathartic.

[@Arttective]

@@Ran2Chaos Yes!!

[@Ran2Chaos]

@Game Pirate it’s funny that you say that. Those films always had this Western (as in Hollywood Western) feel to them with a hero coming in to defeat a town of outlaws or corrupt politician. Ending the ‘Western’ hero saga with him becoming a badass doctor would fall in line with this cowboy Western feel. It becomes the Japanese Man with no Name trilogy ending with the director and actor not working again after the collaboration.

[@stevesearlsspeaks8931]

@@Ran2Chaos The Western filmmaker he most admired was John Ford, not for the stories Ford told in his movies, but for the way he shot his films. But Kurosawa didn't invent the Samurai or sword fighting film, which was a already a popular genre in Japan. He just had a different take on it that certainly was influenced to some degree by American Westerns, but is not at all an imitation of them. His films actually influenced American filmmakers far more than the other way around. As for suggesting he created a "Man with No Name" character by borrowing from American films, that's just not true. It was Sergio Leone who stole from Kurasawa's movie, Yojimbo, to create almost scene by scene a Fist Full of Dollars starting a new Western genre, the so called Spaghetti Western. Seven Samaurai was also ripped off by Hollywood in thie production of a much lesser movie, The Magnificent Seven.

[@Ran2Chaos]

@@stevesearlsspeaks8931 my comment must have been confusing, I didn’t mean to suggest that Kurosawa made a version of the ‘Man with no Name’ trilogy. I was commenting on someone else who thought that Red Beard was to them an unofficial sequel to Yojimbo and Sanjuro where Doctor Niide was just the older version of Sanjuro who gave up being a Wandering Ronin to become a kind doctor. I thought it was funny that they commented that and stated that it fell in line with the Western feel of the gunslinging Doctor with a dark past. Also 100% Kurosawa was a fan of John Ford so he gave off that Western vibe to then inspire Hollywood Westerns with adaptions of Rashomon and Seven Samurai turned into Hollywood western adaptions like Magnificent Seven. I believe the Rashomon adaption had a young William Shatner in it but I can’t remember the name, anyway I hope also didn’t mean to suggest that Kurosawa created the samurai genre as well, that would be crazy since their were tons of stuff before then. It would also demean his work if I implied he was just ripping off Hollywood I hope I also didn’t suggest that. Art just iterates and borrows so there is always influences and then in turn inspirations from works. One last thing just to be clear I’m not including A fistful of Dollars on the ‘Hollywood Western’ first part of this comment because it was created as a Italian And European production so I don’t want to mix examples.

[@InfinityBeyond7]

It's amazing how you compiled and presented the video as a collab with another youtuber, that must be a lot of work! I might even try it out with one of my friend.

[@emilynightingale7758]

absolutely lovely video, thank you very much

[@plusone8015]

Wow. Just an amazing analysis of a beautiful meditation on the human condition and spirit.

[@hendalagedonsumanaratne8669]

I loved this film so much and have seen many times. Thanks for explaining its minor important points.

[@dejablue6607]

Having your video to brighten my day be like: 35 minutes...yessss lot's of content!

[@theaborigine1119]

Love for Akira kurasawa's movies brought me here...

[@pinotnoir4234]

yess I need this in the morning 😭🥰

[@jayxavier6930]

The (now discontinued) channel Every Frame a Painting did a great video on Kurosawa several years back. The scholar-critic Donald Richie wrote a great book on Kurosawa that is worth tracking down.

[@alfabasi]

Extraordinary video for an extraordinary film

[@jayxavier6930]

7:15 "laid bare..." love the shout out to Shklovsky!

[@yoshitoshi98]

It was also my first Kurosawa. The theme of healing and how it spreads.

[@jessicafarrow9228]

Beautiful discussion of one of my most favourite films of all time! I've always loved the kindness Kurosawa showed towards his characters. It seems he had a great faith in humanity, while not being blind to its faults. And Toshiro Mifune was perfection! This is completely unrelated, and I don't know why I thought of it just now, but have you seen the Australian TV series Please Like Me? I think it's brilliant, even if it took me a couple episodes to fall in love with it. I'd love to hear your analysis please!!!!!!!!!

[@tiddles4294]

Extraordinary work, thank you.

[@xzonia1]

This movie sounds very uplifting. I hope I find it to watch one day. Thanks for this video! It helped me relax so I can sleep now. :)

[@maladroit1213]

Awesome, loved this! Film's getting watched this evening!

[@renkomon.8312]

I never heard of this movie before. Thank You for introducing me to this. You got a new subscription to your channel. Keep up the great work. I am rooting for you.🍶🍷

[@butaleo]

Good job! You seem like a good person. My favorite film of all time.

[@jayxavier6930]

16:30 On feeling good about doing good... the eighteenth century "moral sense" philosophy understood this.

[@damiensmithmusicelpaso]

You're a beast man. Thank you for the content! I'm a check this movie out

[@EDDIELANE]

I adore Leslie Howard. I would love for other people to realize how amazing this actor was.

[@NyaLexar]

Finally have a few days to relax and enjoy things.... looking forward to watching all the recenf videos :]

[@alsneed7941]

wonderful analysis !

[@jimmybiemans8264]

The younger version of the character Koala from One Piece is so much like the girl in this movie. Background, resistance to love and help, scrubbing the floor obsessively. The story of both these girls are so haunting, but I feel so much connection with them and their pain.

[@beanbaka]

I love Fort Graveyard which is available on KZbin not Kurosawa but a great watch 👍😁

[@sufferedsage]

This was my first Kurosawa film.

[@ScotisticDad]

Need to give this a look. My favourite Kurosawa movie is "Ikiru" (which is mentioned by your guest). Think you and your viewers will like.

[@Ran2Chaos]

If you liked Ikiru then you most likely would love this one, also ends very hopeful whereas Ikiru had more of a depressing end where inspiration from the Hero didn’t translate to those around him unlike this film.

[@tadakixd8571]

Wow this was a great video essay, this sort of reminded me of The Citadel, which also talks about a young, freshly graduated dr sent out to a remote community, although he's arrogant in a different way. I usually think stories like these are somewhat cliche because The Hero's journey is such a common trope, but this video essay made me interested in watching this film too. Wonderful points from both sides, I loved the points abt long takes and lighting and the analysis of showing kindness and not wanting that spotlighted. Really awesome stuff!

[@caduceusokanbolukbasi]

an excellent critic of this masterpiece movie...a sensual dissection through the plot...meaning...like a product of an overly experienced and scholar clinical physician...especially educative not for students of the visual arts but doctors also...congragulations....

[@MZNO]

This is my favourite Kurosawa movie.

[@DJCoolK1d]

Just making helpful timestamps for myself. Very touching & exceptional. 👍 Good job on the video. Thank you. 12:26 21:57 26:38

[@mylittlethoughttree]

Glad you enjoyed it! This is probably one of my favourite videos to be honest, so it's nice to see it get some love

[@jimmyhedrick7707]

...and Mind. Nice collab.

[@stan8937]

Such a good movie

[@jayxavier6930]

From the perspective of psychology (though not necessarily counseling...), the most revealing take on Kurosawa would have to come from Gestalt perceptual psychology: his use of forms and movement is so emotionally charged, you could almost watch stretches of the film without sound, and without paying attention to the narrative.

[@jayxavier6930]

08:00 on praise vs. helping people: It'd be interesting to hear your take on (any version) of Sherlock, who doesn't want praise (at least from the wider public), but is also very choosy about the cases he accepts...

[@jayxavier6930]

With the exception of Ikiru, generally Kurosawa's social dramas (I Live in Fear, The Lower Depths) are less appreciated than his historical action epics (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Throne...) -- and then there are his his crime dramas/thrillers (Stray Dog, High and Low, The Bad Sleep..., and does Rashomon count as a "crime drama"??), which occupy a netherworld between overlooked and duly appreciated.

[@hadinasrallah8928]

God i love this movie

[@Blueberrygoat92]

That was beautiful. Where can I watch this?

[@unicorn3025]

💖💖red beard💖💖 Thanks so much Have you guys seen these movies The last angry man The dark past Blind alley Shutter Island Please more 🙏 If you have reacted to these movies I'm sorry I haven't seen them Ps i 💘 that scene 💘 scene with a male doctor and male/female patients I'm sorry if my comments are mean/weird

[@bold810]

The best part of U.K. Folks. "Swanning About" is when they are at their Funnest. 🎉👍🤙😸

[@delayte0133]

First of all great essay, I always admired Kurosawa but I never heard of this particular movie so thank you once again for opening my mind to new movies or even masterpieces. And secondly, what’s the piano music in the background? :)

[@mylittlethoughttree]

If I'm remembering the video rightly, that'd be Beethoven's Moonlight sonata 😊

[@buntythoidingjam]

Red Beard is by far the best from Kurosawa. I have seen all his films but I love this the most! And, it is the one of the best classics of the world. I can't believe I had to watch it after completing all the films from the storyteller. It is so underrated. Standing Ovation to the Master! All you Kurosawa fans, have this a go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5W0Yayuhtl3oLM

[@paulsherman5416]

I loved your content so much. I've been trying to find for a KZbin video like yours that really explains everything in this vid! 👨‍⚕️ 🩺Your video reminds me of the content from Dr Ethan. Ethan's explanations are insightful and he actually helped me on my exams! He is the most informative medical student in Nottingham and he teaches diseases! I recommend you check out his channel out and give the doc a like over here! ➡️ #DrEthanAdvice