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040			_cSILC
041			_ajpn _beng _hjpn _jeng
046			_k1948
050			_aPN1997 _b.Y653 1948
100			_aAkira Kurosawa _92265
240			_aDrunken Angel
245			_aYoidore Tenshi _bDrunken Angel _cAkira Kurosawa _h[videorecording]=
246			_aDrunken Angel
260			_aJapan _bToho Company _c1948
300			_a1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) _bsound, color. _c4 3/4 in.
500			_a<based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
520			_aFrom 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.
538			_aDVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; PAL; Regions 2; 1.33:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.
546			_aJapanese audio. Optional English subtitles.
700			_aAkira Kurosawa _eDirector _eScreenwriter _92265
700			_aKeinosuke Uekusa _eScreenwriter
700			_aTakashi Shimura _eActor
700			_aToshirô Mifune _eActor
700			_aReizaburô Yamamoto _eActor
942			_2lcc _cDVD