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Drama

Drunken Angel

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Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.

Release Date : 1948-04-27

Language :Japanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : TOHO

Production Country : Japan

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Takashi Shimura

Character Name : Sanada

Original Name : 志村喬

Gender : Male

Toshirō Mifune

Character Name : Matsunaga

Original Name : 三船敏郎

Gender : Male

Reizaburo Yamamoto

Character Name : Okada

Original Name : 山本礼三郎

Gender : Male

Michiyo Kogure

Character Name : Nanae

Original Name : Michiyo Kogure

Gender : Female

Chieko Nakakita

Character Name : Miyo

Original Name : 中北千枝子

Gender : Female

Noriko Sengoku

Character Name : Gin

Original Name : 千石規子

Gender : Female

Shizuko Kasagi

Character Name : Singer

Original Name : 笠置シヅ子

Gender : Female

Eitarō Shindō

Character Name : Takahama

Original Name : 進藤英太郎

Gender : Male

Masao Shimizu

Character Name : Oyabun

Original Name : 清水将夫

Gender : Male

Taiji Tonoyama

Character Name : Shop Proprietor

Original Name : 殿山泰司

Gender : Male

Yoshiko Kuga

Character Name : Schoolgirl

Original Name : 久我美子

Gender : Female

Chōko Iida

Character Name : Bâya

Original Name : 飯田蝶子

Gender : Female

Isao Ubukata

Character Name : Punk

Original Name : Isao Ubukata

Gender : Male

Akira Tani

Character Name : Yakuza Follower

Original Name : 谷晃

Gender : Male

Sachio Sakai

Character Name : Guitar Player

Original Name : 堺左千夫

Gender : Male

Tateo Kawasaki

Character Name : Flower Shop Proprietor

Original Name : Tateo Kawasaki

Gender : Male

Mayuri Mokushô

Character Name : Daughter at Flower Shop

Original Name : 木匠マユリ

Gender : Female

Toshiko Kawakubo

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Toshiko Kawakubo

Gender : Male

Haruko Toyama

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Haruko Toyama

Gender : Female

Yukie Nanbu

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Yukie Nanbu

Gender : Male

Sumire Shiroki

Character Name : Anego

Original Name : Sumire Shiroki

Gender : Male

Yōko Sugi

Character Name : Dancer (uncredited)

Original Name : 杉葉子

Gender : Female

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-11-17

Takashi Shimura is impressive in this slightly squalid tale of a dipsomaniac doctor ("Sanada") charged with caring for a population housed in a bombed out part of the city. A large stagnant pond amidst their community is as likely to prove a source of toxicity as the pervading Yakuza activities. Those centre around "Matsunaga" (Toshirô Mifune) who turns up at the surgery with an injured hand. The doctor treats the wound but also suggest that the man might want to get treated for what he suspects is a case of tuberculosis. The two men fight - verbally and physically - and things continue to worsen when his boss "Okada" (Reizaburô Yamamoto) gets out of prison and starts to reassert his authority amongst the shopkeepers. Despite the initial hostility, Kurosawa manages to generate a considerable degree of amity between the two men as the story progresses. It is a friendship - of sorts - borne out of frustration and a desire to drink a great deal, and that dynamic becomes more engaging as the inevitability of parts of the story become ever clearer. There is some lovely guitar accompaniment to Fumio Hayasaka's score and the dialogue sparingly but convincingly guides us along as these two opposites start to attract. It is tightly paced with plenty of action as well as engendering, for me anyway, quite a degree of sympathy for the physician caught in a maelstrom of despair that is as much self-induced as anything.