Chieko Nakakita, Eitar? Shind?, Masao Shimizu
A gangster with tuberculosis and a bullet lodged in his hand relates to the alcoholic doctor that treats him.
DVD Release Date: November 27, 2007
Stats: 166 reviews
Akira Kurosawa's "Drunken Angel" (1948) is a significant film for the prolific director as he has claimed it to be the film in which he "found his style". It's also his first film with longtime collaborators Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, who both starred in Kurosawa's "Seve...( read more)
Drunken Angel was the first film Kurosawa was allowed to make without studio interference, and features an alcoholic doctor who forms an unlikely bond with a gangster who he diagnoses with tuberculosis. This film is all about the characters; Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune wer...( read more)
(2nd viewing. Got the Criterion edition as a Christmas present. Owned the UK import BFI edition for years.) An early Kurosawa film and his first film he was given total control. Unlike his previous films that were changed by either the Japanese or American government. A fascinati...( read more)
a great morality tale, mifune and shimura put in their usual top notch performances in this kurosawa film about a tough gang leader that is softened by the combination of a deadly disease and a no nonsense doctor. the film was a little redundant in the beginning and it started a...( read more)
This was the eighth film made by the legendary Akria Kurosawa, but many commentators (including Kurosawa himself) look at it as the beginning of his career. This was the first film Kurosawa could make that wasn?t heavily censored or influenced by the propaganda driven wartime go...( read more)
The first collaboration between the legendary cinematic couple Toshirô Mifune and Akira Kurosawa consists in a moving tale of morality, crime and revenge in post-war Tokyo, a world that I hadn't seen before this film. The brilliance implied in early Kurosawa works relies on chara...( read more)
an old film but good story.... directed by akira kurosawa.... one of my faves
Premier film de Kurosawa dont il a la pleine liberté artistique, et c'est encore plus évident si l'on compare avec ses premières oeuvres comme "No Regrets for Our Youth" qui contient très peu du Kurosawa qu'on connaît bien. Également sa première collaboration avec Toshiro Mifune,...( read more)
Yoidore Tenshi (1948)
Drunken Angel is an early Akira Kurosawa movie about an alcoholic Doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura) who treats a gunshot wounded young Yakuza gangster, Matsunaga, played by Toshirô Mifune (this is his first film with Kurosawa) Dr. Sanada discovers that Matsun...( read more)
historia sobre un gángster de la yakuza enfermo de tuberculosis y el médico alcohólico que le atiende
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