Red Beard (1965)

Tatsuyoshi Ehara: Genzô Tsugawa

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• Dr. Noboru Yasumoto : It smells like rotten fruit.

  Genzo Tsugawa : It's the smell of the poor.

• Genzo Tsugawa : We knew you were coming two weeks ago. It seems he likes you. He's unfriendly to people he likes. Not me. He never finds fault with me. He ignores me completely.

• Genzo Tsugawa : It's really terrible here. Being here makes you wonder why you wanted to be a doctor.

  Dr. Noboru Yasumoto : [Suddenly noticing an unpleasant odor]  It smells like rotten fruit.

  Genzo Tsugawa : It's the smell of the poor.

• Genzo Tsugawa : [Showing the newly-arrived Yasumoto around the clinic]  It's terrible here. You'll have to stay and see for yourself. The patients are slum people, full of fleas and lice. They even smell bad. We don't get much money. And Red Beard is after us night and day.

  Dr. Noboru Yasumoto : "Red Beard"?

  Genzo Tsugawa : The head doctor. His beard is sort of reddish.

• Genzo Tsugawa : [Showing Yasumoto a waiting room filled with sick people]  The waiting room for outpatients. They're treated for free in the afternoons...

  Genzo Tsugawa : [Giving a heavy sigh]  I don't know... All of them would be better off dead.

• Dr. Noboru Yasumoto : Are these things the rule here?

  Genzo Tsugawa : Red Beard's rules. He's the dictator here. A good doctor, dedicated to his work. Many daiyamo and rich people trust him. But he's stubborn, inconsiderate, radical... and proud.

• 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!

• Genzo Tsugawa : We eat here. It's called the dining room. We must not eat or drink in our rooms. They're all Red Beard's rules.

• Genzo Tsugawa : She's a special patient. The whole house is a prison. Osugi has the key and no one gets in. The girl isn't let out either. She's called "the mantis."

  Dr. Noboru Yasumoto : The mantis?

  Genzo Tsugawa : It's a good nickname. The female eats the male after they mate. She'd do the same thing. No one knows who she is, but it seems she's the daughter of a merchant. She killed three clerks there. She'd seduce them first. When they'd get excited over her, she'd stab them with a hairpin.