Drunken angel
by
 
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Title
: 
Drunken angel

Alternate title
: 
Title on disc label: Akira Kurosawa's Drunken angel
 
Title on container spine: Drunken angel
 
Yoidore tenshi

Added Title
: 
Kurosawa and the censors.

Author
: 
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
 
Motoki, Sōjirō.
 
Uekusa, Keinosuke.
 
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
 
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
 
Yamamoto, Reizaburo.
 
Kogure, Michiyo.
 
Itō, Takeo.
 
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
 
Janus Films.
 
Toho Kabushiki Kaisha.
 
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Series
: 
Criterion collection ;

Series Number
: 
413.

Summary
: 
Set in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a tuberculosis-infected criminal starts an unhealthy relationship with an alcoholic doctor. The patient needs to feel better so that he can retain his status as gang-leader after the ex-leader is released from prison, and the doctor needs to feel like he has a place in society and that life is worth living.

Audience
: 
MPAA rating: Not rated.

General Note
: 
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948.
 
Special features: commentary soundtrack by film scholar Donald Richie, a making-of documentary (31 min.), a short (25 min.) looking at the challenges from censors that Kurosawa faced in making Drunken angel, and a booklet featuring an essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma and excerpts from Kurasawa's autobiography.

Edition
: 
Special ed.

Physical Description
: 
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Genre
: 
Foreign films.
 
Feature films.
 
Film noir.
 
Gangster films.
 
Films in Japanese.

Subject Term
: 
Yakuza -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
 
Physicians -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
 
Alcoholics -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
 
Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Drama.
 
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Author(s)
: 
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
 
Motoki, Sōjirō.
 
Uekusa, Keinosuke.
 
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
 
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
 
Yamamoto, Reizaburo.
 
Kogure, Michiyo.
 
Itō, Takeo.
 
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.

Added Corporate Author
: 
Janus Films.
 
Toho Kabushiki Kaisha.
 
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Publisher
: 
Criterion Collection,

Publication Date
: 
2007
 
1948

ISBN
: 
9781604650013

Publication Information
: 
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

Call Number
: 
DVD DRUNKEN


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