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Drunken Angel

1948, Movie, NR, 102 mins

Drunken Angel: Review

DRUNKEN ANGEL | YOIDORE TENSHI
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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 had directed other pictures, it is the one in which his personal voice is first clearly heard. It was also the first starring role for Mifune, who, like his costar Shimura, turns in a mesmerizing performance. What makes the film so powerful is the characters' dependence on one another--Matsunaga's need for medical treatment and emotional support when faced with an incurable disease, and the humanist urge that compels Sanada to treat the gangster despite the fact that he hates everything the Yakuza represents. leave a comment
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