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Format: DVD, Drunken Angel
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Format: DVD, Drunken Angel In this classic film noir set in postwar Japan Toshir Mifune plays Matsunaga a tough small-time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office of Sanada Takashi Shimura a disillusioned yet passionate doctor who treats the wound and in the process discovers Matsunaga has an even bigger ailment--tuberculosis. As Sanada hounds Matsunaga into dealing with his disease the alcoholic physician and the arrogant thug form an uneasy friendship. Meanwhile Matsunaga's mobster boss Okada Reisaburo Yamamoto is released from prison with aspirations of rejuvenating his rough-and-tumble crew. Once Matsunaga is discovered ill he's excluded from the gang leaving him shunned by his peers with a seriously bruised ego. In an act of vengeance he confronts Okada leading to a violent standoff that only one man will survive. DRUNKEN ANGEL marks the first major screen role for Mifune one of Japan's most revered actors. And although Kurosawa had made numerous movies before this productio
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 | Rx for Integrity
by spelvini, 11/24/2008 |
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Pros: energetic perf from Mifune as gangster with substance
Cons: A better subtitle might be in order
The Bottom Line: a movie with substance from a period rife with censoring about the gangster character in Japan
Review: Without the energetic performance of Toshiro Mifune as the young gangster Matsunaga in Drunken Angel
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| | Identity Crisis in Postwar Japan
by metalluk, 5/25/2005 |
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Pros: Mifune's first film with Kurosawa; intense depiction of moral decay in postwar Japan; engaging story
Cons: Woefully awful subtitle translations for the Mei Ah DVD
The Bottom Line: This was the first critically acclaimed film by Kurosawa, not a masterpiece, but an engaging film noir featuring a youthful Toshirô Mifune.
Review: Recently, I reviewed the film R ed Beard (1965), which was the last collaboration between Japanes
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