Red Beard

Trained in a Dutch medical school in Nagasaki, the young and arrogant doctor Noboru Yasumoto aspires to the status of personal physician of the Shogunate, a position currently held by a close relative, and expects to progress through the privileged and insulated army structure of medical education. However, for Yasumoto's post-graduate medical training, he is assigned to a rural clinic under the guidance of Akahige ("Red Beard"), Dr Kyojō Niide. Under a gruff exterior, Dr Niide is a compassionate clinic director.