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Drunken Angel
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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DRUNKEN ANGEL
A film by Akira Kurosawa
Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimura), the drunken angel of the titIe, runs a clinic in the slums of Tokyo. When smaIl-time hood Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) comes to his surgery after a gunfight Sanada diagnoses him with tuberculosis and convinces him to begin treatment. The disiIIusioned doctor feeIs that, by saving the young yakuza, he can retrieve a sense of his own Iost youth and idealism. Thus, they embark on a troubIed friendship which is tested by the prejudices of the two and the release from prison of Matsunaga's mobster boss.
Mifune, in his first major screen role, and Toho reguIar Shimura star together in a film which is part gangster, part meIodrama and part-social critique, estabIishing for the first time their dynamic relationship and the extraordinary on-screen chemistry which Kurosawa would explore further in films such as Stray Dog and Seven Samurai.
Despite being Kurosawa's eighth feature, Drunken Angel was the director's first criticaI success and the first film in which he finaIIy discovered (himseIf). The existentiaI humanism which made him famous is at the root of his extraordinary taIe with the correlation between strength of spirit and physicaI weII-being representing the two forces at work in post-war Japan.
Japan | 1948 | black & white | Japanese Ianguage with EngIish subtitIes | 94 minutes | Academy ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD |
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