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Sep 10, 2012 · Kurosawa quotes this, his seventh feature, an atmospheric noir-inflected low life melodrama, as the first in which he felt truly himself as director. Casting
Sep 6, 2010 · In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Takashi Shimura’s jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, <I>Drunken Angel</I> is an evocative, moody snapshot of a treacherous time and place, featuring one of the ...
Lucinda Williams performs "Drunken Angel" at the Farm Aid concert in Seattle, Washington on September 18, 2004. Farm Aid was started by Willie Nelson, Neil Y...
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Other articles where Drunken Angel is discussed: Kurosawa Akira: First films: It was Yoidore tenshi (1948; Drunken Angel), however, that made Kurosawa’s name famous. This story of a consumptive gangster and a drunken doctor living in the postwar desolation of downtown Tokyo is a melodrama intermingling desperation and hope, violence, and melancholy. The gangster was portrayed by a new actor ...
May 4, 2020 · Why you watch: Drunken Angel (1948) Akira Kurosawa’s early classic reimagines the crime flick into a stylish meditation of what real virtue might be. DRUNKEN ANGEL is remembered primarily for ...
Drunken Angel is by no means Akira Kurosawa's greatest achievement; rather, it is his first vital narrative and his first whole thesis on Japan's postwar kyodatsu condition of many to follow.
DRUNKEN ANGEL sees the master of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, on solid form in the simplistic tale of the developing friendship between an alcoholic doctor and a dying gangster who comes to him for help.
