Drunken Angel (UK-import)
Post-war Japan anatomised in the combative relationship between an alcoholic doctor (Takeshi Shimura) and his patient (Toshiro Mifune), a wounded young gangster. This is the film that was considered to be Kurosawa's breakthrough movie, illuminating themes that would go on to dominate his preceeding work. Drunken Angel also marked his first - of many - collaborations with Toshiro Mifune, here playing the tubercular Yakuza hoodlum.
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