Yoidore Tenshi Drunken Angel Akira Kurosawa [videorecording]=

By:

Akira Kurosawa

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Publication details: Japan Toho Company 1948Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Drunken Angel

Uniform titles:

Drunken Angel

LOC classification:

PN1997 .Y653 1948

Summary: From case cover: Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimura), the drunken angel of the title, runs a clinic in the slums of Tokyo. When small-time hood Matsunaga (Toshirô Mifune) comes to his surgery after a gunfight Sanada diagnoses him with tuberculosis and convinces him to begin treatment. The disillusioned doctor feels that, by saving this young yakuza, he can retrieve a sense of his own lost youth and idealism. Thus they embark on a troubled friendship which is tested by the prejudices of the two and the release from prison of Matsunaga's mobster boss. Mifune, in his first major screen role, and Toho regular Shimura star together in a film which is part gangster, part melodrama and part social critique, establishing for the first time their dynamic relationship and the extraordinary on-screen chemistry which Kurosawa would explore further in films such as Stray Dog and Seven Samurai. Despite being Kurosawa's eighth feature, Drunken Angel was the director's first critical success and the first film in which he 'finally discovered [himself]'. The 'existential humanism' which made him famous is at the root of this extraordinary tale with correlation between strength of spirit and physical well-being representing the two forces at work in post-war Japan.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-E: DVD Cabinet E	PN1997 .Y653 1948	Available		002434
Books	SILC Learning Support Services DH132AA - Receiption/Circulation	PN1997 .Y653 1948	Available		002461

From case cover:
Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimura), the drunken angel of the title, runs a clinic in the slums of Tokyo. When small-time hood Matsunaga (Toshirô Mifune) comes to his surgery after a gunfight Sanada diagnoses him with tuberculosis and convinces him to begin treatment. The disillusioned doctor feels that, by saving this young yakuza, he can retrieve a sense of his own lost youth and idealism. Thus they embark on a troubled friendship which is tested by the prejudices of the two and the release from prison of Matsunaga's mobster boss.

Mifune, in his first major screen role, and Toho regular Shimura star together in a film which is part gangster, part melodrama and part social critique, establishing for the first time their dynamic relationship and the extraordinary on-screen chemistry which Kurosawa would explore further in films such as Stray Dog and Seven Samurai.

Despite being Kurosawa's eighth feature, Drunken Angel was the director's first critical success and the first film in which he 'finally discovered [himself]'. The 'existential humanism' which made him famous is at the root of this extraordinary tale with correlation between strength of spirit and physical well-being representing the two forces at work in post-war Japan.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; PAL; Regions 2; 1.33:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

Japanese audio. Optional English subtitles.

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