Drunken Angel
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1948 / 98 min.
In this brilliant, early film noir by Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune shines as a mercurial criminal suffering from tuberculosis who enters into an improbable relationship with a cynical, alcoholic doctor.
Drunken Angel is set in and around the slums and seedy nightclubs of post-war Tokyo. This is a suggestive, atmospheric character study of machismo in the criminal underworld, featuring one of the most memorable, violent final scenes in Kurosawa’s oeuvre. As he put it in his memoires, Something Like an Autobiography: "I wanted to take a scalpel to the yakuza and dissect them."
Screens on 35mm (Japan Foundation)
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1948
Country
JP
Original title
Yoidore tenshi
Length
98 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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