Red Beard's Clinic

<p>Yasumoto Noboru completed three years of medical studies in Nagasaki where he learned the latest advances in Western medicine. He expects to be appointed to the position of a doctor for the shogunate. To his dismay the ambitious young doctor will spend the next year as an apprentice doctor at a public charity clinic run by a crusty old doctor nicknamed Red Beard. What lessons will Red Beard teach Noboru during this tumultuous year?</p><p>The great film maker Akira Kurosawa translated these Red Beard stories to film in <em>Akahige</em> [Red Beard] (1965) starring Toshiro Mifune.</p>