Red Beard

Toshirō Mifune as Dr. Kyojio Niide ("Red Beard") Yūzō Kayama as Dr. Noboru Yasumoto Tsutomu Yamazaki as Sahachi Reiko Dan as Osugi Miyuki Kuwano as Onaka Kyōko Kagawa as Madwoman ("The Mantis") Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Genzô Tsugawa Terumi Niki as Otoyo Akemi Negishi as Okuni Yoshitaka Zushi as Chobo Yoshio Tsuchiya as Dr. Handayû Mori Eijirō Tōno as Goheiji Takashi Shimura as Tokubei Izumiya Chishū Ryū as Mr. Yasumoto Haruko Sugimura as Kin, the madam Kinuyo Tanaka as Madame Yasumoto Eijirō Yanagi as Madwoman's father Kōji Mitsui as Heikichi Kō Nishimura as Chief retainer Nobuo Chiba as Matsudaira Kamatari Fujiwara as Rokusuke Yōko Fujiyama as Chigusa, Masae's sister Yōko Naitō as Masae Akiko Nomura as Ofuku Kin Sugai as Choji's Mother Michiko Araki as Brothel owner Bokuzen Hidari as Patient A Atsushi Watanabe as Patient B Yutaka Sada as Resident Ikio Sawamura as Resident Noriko Honma as Resident Akiko Kazami as Masae's mother Keiko Tomita as Girl on street Shōichi Hirose as Thug Masanobu Ōkubo as Choji's Father Fujio Tokita as Thug Hiroshi Tanaka as Thug Kanzō Uni as Thug

Ryuzo Kikushima Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer Akira Kurosawa Director Yoshirō Muraki Production Design Masanobu Deme Assistant Director Teruyo Nogami Script Supervisor Masaru Satō Original Music Composer Asakazu Nakai Director of Photography Shūgorō Yamamoto Novel Akira Kurosawa Screenplay Hideo Oguni Screenplay Ryuzo Kikushima Screenplay Akira Kurosawa Editor