Akira Kurosawa's DRUNKEN ANGEL captures the mood of postwar Japan in the same way the neorealist films of Italy did in that country. In a war-scarred town controlled by the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters), an alcoholic doctor runs a small clinic. A young gangster, Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune),
comes to have a bullet removed from his hand and is treated by Dr. Sanada (Takashi Shimura), who hates the Yakuza. Sanada discovers that Matsunaga has tuberculosis and, after arguments and fistfights, convinces Matsunaga to let him treat the illness, creating a love-hate relationship between the
two. This was the first film on which Kurosawa had creative control and, although he ha...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
102 mins