Genres: Foreign, Drama, Criterion Collection, Crime / Criminals, Japan, Crime Drama, Foreign Drama, Japanese Cinema
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis: In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unlikely, unhealthy relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, DRUNKEN ANGEL (Yoidore tenshi) is an evocative, moody snapshot of a troubled time and place, featuring one of the director's most memorably violent climaxes.
Language: Japanese
Country of Origin: Japan
Production Year: 1948
Reviews:
- "Kurosawa's major breakthrough.", Donald Richie
- Release Date: Nov 27th, 2007
- Catalog Number: CC1728DDVD
- UPC: 715515026826
- Rating: Not Rated
- Run Time: 98
- Color Format: Black & White
- Audio: PCM Mono
- Language: Japanese
- 16:9: No
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Closed Captions: No
- Subtitle: English
- Special Features:
New audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
New, restored hi-def digital transfer
A 30-minute documentary on the making of Drunken Angel
A new video piece that looks at the challenges Kurosawa faced from the censors
PLUS: An essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma
A reprint from Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography
