Drunken Angel | Yoidore Tenshi |
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| Sprog:
Japansk (Dolby Digital)
Undertekst:
Engelsk
Billedeformat:
Fullscreen 1.33:1 (4:3)
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Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimuira), the drunken angel of the title, runs a clinic in the slums of Tokyo. When small-time hood Matsunaga (Toshiro 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 the correlation between strength of spirit and physical well-being representing the two forces at work in post-war Japan. |
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| Instruktør:
Akira Kurosawa
Skuespillere:
Akira Tani
Chieko Nakakita
Chôko Iida
Chouko Iida
Eitarô Shindô
Haruko Toyama
Isamu Ikukata
Ko Ubukata
Masao Shimizu
Mayuri Mokusho
Michiyo Kogure
Noriko Sengoku
Reisaburô Yamamoto
Sachio Sakai
Senkichi Ômura
Shizuko Kasagi
Sumire Shiroki
Taiji Tonoyama
Takashi Shimura
Tateo Kawasaki
Toshiko Kawakubo
Toshirô Mifune
Yôko Sugi
Yoshiko Kuga
Yukie Nanbu
Producent:
Sôjirô Motoki
Forfatter:
Akira Kurosawa
Keinosuke Uekusa
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