Red Beard

A visually striking flashback vignette deep in Akira Kurosawa's narrative, Tsutomi Yamazaki as Sahachi, patient of Toshiro Mifune's title character, in a deathbed confession recalls meeting his wife (Miyuki Kuwano) whom he believed died years earlier, with her baby by another father, shortly after her remains were found in his home, in Red Beard, 1966.

In early 19th century Japan, skeptical young doctor Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is introduced to the clinic and the head man (Toshiro Mifune, title character), early in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard, 1966, from a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto.