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1948

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Starring	Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Drunken Angel

Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first auteur project. I finally discovered myself, he explained later. It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else. Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. Shimura tries to pull himself together long enough to save the life of young hoodlum Toshiro Mifune. The doctor feels that, by saving Mifune, he is retrieving a portion of his own lost youth and idealism. Kurosawa later observed that he had trouble corraling Tohsiro Mifune's improvisational instincts, but that I did not want to smother that vitality. The end result in Drunken Angel is a supremely satisfying blend of Mifune's rapid-fire excesses and Kurosawa's even-handed control.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring	Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Studio	BFI VIDEO
Original title	Yoidore Tenshi
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1948 To Rent: DVD: 25 Jul 2005

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- Kurosawa quotes this, his seventh feature, an atmospheric noir-inflected low life melodrama, as the first in which he... read more on Time Out
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  Drunk Doctor diagnoses drink as dangerous
  
  You will already see from the other reviews that this is an early Kurosawa film using two of his favourite actors together for the first time. Yes it is a good... read more »
  
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  Not really my sort of thing....
  
  But then again my girlfriend chose it. Judging by the fact that she stopped watching it half way through I guess it wasn't her sort of thing too. Old films ... read more »
  
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  Drunk Doctor diagnoses drink as dangerous
  
  You will already see from the other reviews that this is an early Kurosawa film using two of his favourite actors together for the first time. Yes it is a good... read more »
  
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  what do you want from a dvd
  
  Kurosawa /Mifune.. it must be good?
  
  I'm sure this film has a lot to offer the film historian /critic but this film just did not hit the spot for ... read more »
  
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  Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first auteur project. I finally discovered myself, he explained later. It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else. Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. ...