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?The great film maker Akira Kurosawa translated these Red Beard stories to film in Akahige [Red Beard] (1965), starring Toshiro Mifune.
- | Author: Shugoro Yamamoto
- | Publisher: Shelley Marshall
- | Publication Date: Oct 16, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 234 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1959002074
- | ISBN-13: 9781959002079
- Author:
- Shugoro Yamamoto
- Publisher:
- Shelley Marshall
- Publication Date:
- Oct 16, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 234 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1959002074
- ISBN-13:
- 9781959002079