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Between 1945 and 1952, during the American occupation of Japan, censorship agencies reviewed all films proposed for production. In this 2007 video essay, film scholar Lars-Martin Sorensen sheds light on the challenges Akira Kurosawa faced from the censors in making DRUNKEN ANGEL.
May 4, 2020 · The title character is an alcoholic doctor (Takashi Shimura) working in the slums of Tokyo, and the movie initially concerns his attempt to cure a local yakuza big shot (Mifune) of his rapidly ...
- Rob Kotecki
Nov 19, 2007 · But some, in a perverse way, transformed their military code of honor into a gangland code that was just as deadly. It is this criminal machismo that Kurosawa set out to explore and dramatize in Drunken Angel, his seventh film and, he felt, his official breakthrough in Japanese cinema.
Drunken Angel. 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.
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Between 1945 and 1952, during the American occupation of Japan, censorship agencies reviewed all films proposed for production. In this 2007 video essay, film scholar Lars-Martin Sorensen sheds light on the challenges Akira Kurosawa faced from the censors in making DRUNKEN ANGEL.
Jazzing in the Tokyo Slum: Music, Influence, and Censorship in Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken AngelDrunken Angel
Drunken Angel. Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1948 • Japan. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. 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.
