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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.
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.)
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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