YMMV / Red Beard

• One-Scene Wonder: Koji Mitsui (whom you may recognize as Yoshisaburo from The Lower Depths (1957) and the lead journalist in The Bad Sleep Well) as Sahachi's grieving, wasted friend.
• The Woobie: Otoyo. Her subsequent curing by Yasumoto's dogged persistence, her being made Yasumoto's nurse (when he in turn fell ill from overfatigue), and finding a friend in the boy thief Chobo should squeeze your heart out.