Masaki Kobayashi
Five years elapsed between the release of "Red Beard" and "Dodes'ka-den". The latter film was only made with the cooperation and co-producing of three other Japanese directors, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi, and Kon Ichikawa. "Dodes'ka-den" marks a stylistic departure from Kurosawa's previous works. It was the director's first color film, and very few of the actors from Kurosawa's stock company of previous decades were in it. Most cast members were relatively unknown.