Red Beard (1965)

Dr. Handayu Mori: The pain and loneliness of death frighten me. But Dr. Niide looks at it differently. He looks into their hearts as well as their bodies.

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Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: [shouting an order to the kitchen staff] Go and get me some sake!
Genzo Tsugawa: We don't drink sake here.
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: That's why I'll drink! I'll break every rule! No uniform. I'll be such a nuisance he'll ask me to leave!

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Tokubei Izumiya: Pardon my abrupt question, but is it true that doctors play no part in life and death?
Dr. Kyojô Niide: It seems so.
Tokubei Izumiya: The people meant to live recover, and those meant to die pass away? Doctors have nothing to do with it?
Dr. Kyojô Niide: It may mean that.
Tokubei Izumiya: Bad and good doctors are the same, then? Expensive medicines and those sold in pharmacies are the same? Of course, an eminent doctor like yourself is different, I am sure...
Dr. Kyojô Niide: Don't make me an exception. Don't hold back. Say what's on your mind.
Tokubei Izumiya: I'm afraid I have displeased you.
Dr. Kyojô Niide: Of course not. All doctors have to butter up rich men.

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Period construction of the hospital went as far as to use the right kind of aged wood that would have been used in the region at the time the film is set, per Akira Kurosawa's request.
This movie marked the end of Akira Kurosawa's collaboration with Toshirô Mifune.
According to the DVD commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince, this is the only Akira Kurosawa film to feature nudity.
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