Drunken angel = Yoidore tenshi

Drunken angel Yoidore tenshi

醉いどれ天使 = Drunken angel /

DVD - 2007

Dr. Sanada is an alcoholic, in part due to the despair that constantly assails him as he tries to keep the inhabitants of a post-World War II Tokyo slum as healthy as possible. Food and medical supplies are scarce, the neighborhood is around an open sewer, and the only place to buy medicines is the black market-- controlled by the Yakuza. Matsunaga, a young yakuza with a violent temper, seeks Sanada's help to remove a bullet from his hand, but Matsunaga's cough catches the doctor's attention. What follows is a wrestling match for Matsunaga's life. Will he follow Sanada's instructions and make the smart, healthy decision, or will he let the fabled yakuza code of honor destroy him?

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Subjects
Yakuza > Japan > Drama.
Gangsters > Japan > Drama.
Alcoholics > Japan > Drama.
Tuberculosis > Patients > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Japan > Drama.
Black market > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Japan > Social conditions > Drama.
Tokyo (Japan) > Drama.
Feature films.
Film noir.
Gangster films.
Crime films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Gangster.
Genres
Feature films
Film noir
Gangster films
Crime films
Foreign films
Motion pictures, Japanese
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Gangster
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection [2007]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Authors
Janus Films, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社
Corporate Authors
Janus Films (production company), Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社
Other Authors
Sōjirō Motoki (film producer), Keinosuke Uekusa (screenwriter), Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998 (actor), Takashi Shimura, 1905-1982, Toshirō Mifune, 1920-1997, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, 1926-2005, Noriko Sengoku, Shizuko Kasagi, 1914-1985
Edition
Full screen
Item Description
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948.
Special features: Commentary (featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie); Akira Kurosawa: It is wonderful to create (making of documentary, 31 min.); Kurosawa and the censors (looks at the challenges faced during the making of Drunken Angel, 25 min.).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; fullscreen presentation, preserving the aspect ratio 1.33:1 of the original theatrical exhibition.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Cinematography by Itō Takeo ; music by Hayasaka Fumio.
ISBN
9781604650013
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon) elicits a powerfully raw performance from Toshiro Mifune as a mobster suffering from tuberculosis who finds himself being treated by an alcoholic slum doctor in postwar Tokyo. The initial prognosis for this actor-director duo was not promising in this first of 16 movies they made together-a gritty outing where the young filmmaker fought censors to fashion his most creatively free picture to date. For larger collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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