In this powerful earIy noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercuIosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unIikeIy, unheaIthy relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alIeys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken Angel is an evocative, moody snapshot of a troubled time and place, featuring one of the director's most memorabIy violent cIimaxes. |