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Drunken Angel

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  • "Yoidore tenshi"
  • "酔いどれ天使"
  • "Akira Kurosawa's drunken angel"
  • "Engel der Verlorenen"
  • "Yoidore Tenshi"

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  • "An alcoholic physician tries to be a healer in a world of hoodlums."
  • "Tussen een jonge gangster en zijn dokter in het naoorlogse Japan ontstaat een moeizame verstandhouding."
  • "The story of a physician who tries to be a healer in a world of hoodlums."
  • "This film is regarded as Kurosawa's first significant work and is a about a Yakuza who visits the clinic of a grog-sodden doctor one evening to have a gunshot wound attended to. While removing the slug, the surgeon diagnoses TB in his patient. Only a change of lifestyle will improve his prognosis, he tells the gangster."
  • "In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken angel is an evocative, moody snapshot of a treacherous time and place, featuring one of the director's most memorably violent climaxes."
  • "Summary: In this powerful early noir from Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune plays 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."
  • "After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the ganster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take over his gang once again. The young man loses his status as gang boss and becomes ostracised, and eventually confronts his former boss in a battle to the death."

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  • "Feature films"
  • "Films"
  • "Gangster films and programs"
  • "Features"
  • "Yakuza-eiga"
  • "Feature : Foreign"
  • "Video tapes"
  • "Drama"

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  • "Drunken Angel"
  • "Drunken angel Yoidore tenshi"
  • "Yoidore tenshi"
  • "Drunken angel"
  • "Drunken angel Yoidore Tenshi"
  • "Drunken angel 酔いどれ天使"
  • "Drunken angel [videorecording]"
  • "Yoidore Tenshi"

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