Akahige 1965

Critics score:
77 / 100

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Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A mature work that merits the term most apply to it: Dostoyevskian. Read more

Michael Sragow, New Yorker: Kurosawa somehow manages to imbue every moment of this three-hour-plus movie with the transcendent vitality and intelligence of a great Victorian novel. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard is assembled with the complexity and depth of a good l9th-century novel, and it is a pleasure, in a time of stylishly fragmented films, to watch a director taking the time to fully develop his characters. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more