One more top title before it's time to send out the Savant Newsletter - which, by the way, I want to thank you for subscribing to: apparently in this phase of Web politics, it's the measure of success for a website.
Criterion and HVe have been putting out a string of high quality product, and Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard is about as good as it gets. Beautifully remastered in HD and digitally scrubbed, this tale of duty and human empathy in a Shogunate medical clinic is one of the most uplifting - but unsentimental - pictures ever made. Stars Toshiro Mifune, in his last of many roles for director Kurosawa.
Today's the 16th of July, which just happens to be the street date for Red Beard. I'm usually early or late with reviews, whereas other sites schedule them right with the releases ... if you look at the list below, you'll find reviews for at least four other pictures that hit the street today! Thanks again, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at July 16, 2002 02:18 PM