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	Drunken Angel Review
		Drunken Angel (1948) was Kurosawa’s seventh film (he started in 1943 with Sanshiro Sugata) and by all accounts his first major work.
		Overall, though, Drunken Angel is a dynamic examination of a postwar Japan in physical and psychic chaos, and a typically strong look at the forces that bind men, and sometimes destroy them.
		Drunken Angel is a transitional film for Japanese cinema and especially for Kurosawa; it offers a vivid glimpse of postwar life (both rotten and restoring), and signals the full blossoming of Kurosawa's talent.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/kuroangel.html (1601 words)

	Program Note XHTML template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drunken Angel is a hymn to the desperation of man; an angry hopeless song about a desperate, angry landscape of human hope and sickness.
		Drunken Angel is a bubbling mud puddle in the very heart of man, with diseases and hideous nests of mosquitoes, oozing gases and garbage, degradation and misery.
		Drunken Angel is a film of contemporary Japan and contemporary man anywhere as seen by an artist whose love and compassion have lead him to desperation.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/d/drunken_angel.html (320 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Drunken Angel
		Drunken Angel marked the first time that Japanese director Akira Kurosawa directed masterful actor Toshiro Mifune, but the results are excellent enough that you can see why their collaborations continued for decades.
		Drunken Angel opens, Mifune’s young thug stumbles into the doctor’s office late one night with an injured hand that he claims he hurt by slamming it in a door.
		Drunken Angel is a close-up of a grimy pond of water that sits in the middle of the section of Tokyo where the film takes place.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1948/drunkenangel.htm (785 words)

	DVD Times - Drunken Angel
		Drunken Angel is a case in point: whilst it may share a lachrymose coda with Rhapsody in August (or, indeed, Rashomon), its bitter edge is present from the opening titles.
		In this respect Drunken Angel can be twinned with Stray Dog (made the following year) as any film in which Kurosawa considers the characters of modern day Japan also hinges on a taking of the post-war mood.
		As for extras, Drunken Angel comes with the BFI's standard Kurosawa accompaniment: a handful of biographies on the disc for the director and his two leads, plus a booklet of reprinted Sight and Sound articles and Philip Kemp’s liner notes in the case.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57978 (1086 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Rare Akira Kurosawa films
		The collapse of the "warrior nation" after the war is painfully evident in the film’s central image, a filthy, disease-breeding cesspool outside the doctor’s office and through which the characters constantly must pass in rituals of moral pollution.
		Indeed, Drunken Angel throughout has the squalid look of a neo-realist film, complete with slum streets and gangsters and party girls trying desperately to survive in a rank, unlivable world.
		In Drunken Angel it was shown as a constant threat.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /30/kurosawa1.html (1792 words)

	Toshiro Mifune Reviews: Drunken Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drunken Angel, the third film of his career, was the movie that made Mifune
		As Donald Richie has described them: "...the doctor is a kind of angel because he is absolutely determined to do good, the way other men might be determined to do bad.
		He is the kind of angel one wrestles with, and the doctor must play Jacob to this dark, unknowable power." With two superb performances from his protagonists, and with a furious passion to depict the depravity of postwar Japan, Kurosawa created a masterpiece.
	www.sprout.org /toshiro/reviews/drunken_angel.html (376 words)

	Firecracker \| The Bad Sleep Well & Drunken Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drunken Angel tells the story of Dr. Sanada (Takashi Shimura), a down and out character in the slums of a Tokyo neighbourhood, struggling to cure both people and society of its ills.
		But when Matsunaga’s old boss is released from prison a battle over his territory drags Matsunaga back into the life of which Sanada has tried to steer him clear.
		Only the eighth feature of Kurosawa, Drunken Angel marks the first in a long line of collaborations between the director and the remarkable Toshiro Mifune.
	www.firecracker-media.com /moxie/archive/issue09/d_review0903.shtml (655 words)

	Whispy.com Cultural Creative Community - The Angel on Earth ...
		I received a vision of a pure angel that comes to earth full of love and light with no experience of what it is like to feel fire.
		So the angel weeps and weeps, not really understanding the nature of this fire that hurts so very much inside her.
		The angel looked at the woman and said to her in one last statement, "And I thought YOU were enlightened".
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	Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His first post-war film No regrets for our youth, by contrast, is critical of the old Japanese regime and is about the wife of a left-wing dissident arrested for his political leanings.
		However it was a period film Rashomon which made him internationally famous and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
		His collaboration with the latter, which began with 1948's Drunken Angel and ended with 1965's Red Beard, is one of the most famous director-actor combinations in cinema history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akira_Kurosawa (1684 words)

	Amazon.com: Drunken Angel (1948) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The doctor is himself diseased by his drinking, and as these clashing men struggle to make some kind of difference in their pathetic lives (spurned by the return from prison of a ruthless yakuza boss), Kurosawa makes unlikely heroes of them both--men who undergo a personal transformation in a vile and violent world.
		Drunken Angel is the film that started the amazing collaboration of Mifune and Kurosawa, and it was the first film in which Kurosawa had total control-laying the foundation of the auteur's career.
		The key to "Drunken Angel" is the two main characters, both flawed and somewhat nobel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780023447?v=glance (2028 words)

	Drunken Angel (Yoidore Tenshi) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Kurosawa quotes this, his seventh feature, an atmospheric noir-inflected low life melodrama, as the first in which he felt truly himself as director.
		Casting the moody 28-year-old Mifune, in the first of their 16 collaborations, as the violent gangster whom boozy doctor Shimura diagnoses as suffering from TB ('a hole in the heart,' says the sour 'angel', ruefully), entailed major rewrites as his part was gradually increased.
		The movie breathes the polluted air of post-war pessimism, dissipation and poetic fatalism, symbolised in the shots of the oily, malaria-ridden swamp of a Tokyo dockside, but it is dramatically qualified by Mifune's suggested redeemability and Shimura's stoical humanism, the quality he epitomised almost 20 years later in the marvellous Redbeard.
	www.timeout.com /film/65822.html?cinema_id=380 (184 words)

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		DRUNKEN ANGEL marks the first major screen role for Mifune, one of Japan's most revered actors.
		However, the most significant element of DRUNKEN ANGEL is its initial collaboration between Mifune and Kurosawa, arguably the greatest actor-director pairing in cinema history.
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	Amazon.com: Rare Kurosawa (Drunken Angel/ Scandal/ I Live In Fear) (1959) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I had a bit of a time deciding whether to give this set 5 or 4 stars, But these are key films in Kurosawa's career and deserve to be seen by completist.
		"Drunken Angel" is cited as the first film in which Kurosawa expressed his real philiosphy of life.
		It is a dark, tragic film, with an all but unrecognisable Mifune as the head of a family who wants to move himself and his family to a place they will be "safe" from the radiation from nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780023498?v=glance (886 words)

	channel4.com/film - Drunken Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But it was Drunken Angel (aka Yoidore Tenshi), made in 1948, that Kurosawa believed was the first film really to be made under his control.
		Set in postwar Japan, specifically in a city slum frequented by yakuza hoodlums and gaudy good-time girls, Drunken Angel sees Mifune star as Matsunaga, a young gangster who reluctantly seeks treatment from the local doctor, Dr Sanada, played by Shimura.
		Much to the disapproval of Dr Sanada, his young patient is a right hand man of the local gang boss, but his tubercular state is of more pressing concern.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=110454 (315 words)

	SARUDAMA.COM: Japanese Movie Reviews: Drunken Angel - Yoidore Tenshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Matsunaga's short-lived yet earnest attempt to walk the straight and narrow is compelling as is the impact of his peer's influence over him.
		The yakuza, the squalor of poverty, and the glimpses of a brighter future, as seen in the schoolgirl demeanour of Sanada's other young TB patient and the healthy bustle of the merchant district, provide what seems a clear snapshot of post-war Tokyo's first steps toward self-redefinition.
		The movie's title, Drunken Angel refers to Sanada, implying he is the focal point.
	www.sarudama.com /movies/drunkenangel.shtml (805 words)

	bfi \| Books & Video \| DVD & Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Japan / 1948 / fl and white / Japanese language with English subtitles / 94 mins / Ratio 1.33:1 / Cert PG Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimura), 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 DVD contains a 12-page illustrated booklet with notes by film historian Philip Kemp, an extract from 'The Films of Kurosawa' by Jay Leyda from Sight and Sound, Oct/Dec 1954 and an extract from 'Kurosawa on Kurosawa' from Sight and Sound, Autumn 1964.
	www.bfi.org.uk:8080 /booksvideo/video/catalogue/index.php/page/item_view/code/432 (154 words)

	Great Performances . Kurosawa . DRUNKEN ANGEL \| PBS
		The marionette-like young doctor who was the picture of humanitarianism was blown to bits.
		At last the "Drunken Angel" came on stage.
		IT'S NOT POSSIBLE for me to talk about DRUNKEN ANGEL, which was released in 1948, without devoting some attention to the actor Mifune Toshiro.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/drunkenangel.html (1741 words)

	Drunken Angel \| The A.V. Club
		Kurosawa considered 1948's Drunken Angel the film in which he came into his own as a director.
		In his memoir, Something Like An Autobiography, Kurosawa writes of Drunken Angel, "I wanted to take a scalpel and dissect the yakuza." It's easy to get the sense with Scandal that he felt a similar hatred toward the tabloids.
		Mifune's yakuza lieutenant in Angel and Shimura's corrupt lawyer in Scandal eventually turn the films into battles for their souls.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/3830 (582 words)

	Great Performances . Akira Kurosawa: Essential Films . DRUNKEN ANGEL \| PBS
		The war had ruined the nation, and Kurosawa spoke through film as an artist addressing this devastation and seeking a path beyond it.
		One of the best of these postwar films, DRUNKEN ANGEL is about a slum doctor (Sanada) trying to cure a young gangster of tuberculosis, with the physical cure of the disease used as a metaphor for the kind of psychological changes that must accompany postwar recovery.
		As he would do again in IKIRU and RED BEARD, Kurosawa uses illness as a social metaphor.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/multimedia/m_drunkangel.html (206 words)

	Food Network: Drunken Angel Food Cake with Tequila and Lime
		Food Network: Drunken Angel Food Cake with Tequila and Lime
		Print this recipe out and cut along the dotted lines to add this 3x5 recipe card to your personal collection.
		Drunken Angel Food Cake with Tequila and Lime
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	Akira Kurosawa's Yoidore Tenshi, The Drunken Angel, 1948
		Akira Kurosawa's Yoidore Tenshi, The Drunken Angel, 1948
		It should come as no real surprise that in 2005 director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio announced having a re-make of Drunken Angel in the works.
		Functional after a fashion only, that is. We await their efforts with bated breaths.
	www.thelooniverse.com /movies/japan/kurosawa/drunkangel/drunkangel.html (297 words)

	Angel Box 1-1
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		Sitting alone in a Los Angeles bar the drunken Angel reflects on his dreary life and Buffy, his love, whom he has left behind in Sunnydale.
		As Angel Investigations encroach upon the evil in Los Angeles they recruit the bumblling Wesley (Alexis Denisof) and as a force try to diminish the hellish activities of villainous law firm Wolfram and Hart whose terrifying actions out the entire city into a situation that almost no one can escape.
	www.phase9.tv /dvdvideo/angelbox1-1.shtml (315 words)

	Yoidore tenshi (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A very, very vivid film from Japanese legend, Akira Kurosawa.
		The Japanese town that is the setting for "Drunken Angel" is vividly captured by Kurosawa, and the filthy swamp that separates the doctor from the filthiness of the town is brilliant.
		Toshiro Mifune plays a tuberculosis stricken gangster who is slowly won over, despite his vicious pride, by the caring but sarcastic doctor.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0040979 (375 words)

	Drunken Angel
		"Drunken Angel has also been cited by Kurosawa as the film in which the immature director finally 'discovered' himself.
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	Drunken Angel movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and screenwriter John Logan are in early talks to develop a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1948 classic "Drunken Angel" for Warner Bros. Pictures.
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	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/d/drunkenangel.htm (240 words)

	Related: Drunken Angel the remake directed by Martin Scorsese - Insomniac Mania
		Related: Drunken Angel the remake directed by Martin Scorsese - Insomniac Mania
		Related: Drunken Angel the remake directed by Martin Scorsese
		Drunken Sailor Johnny Vegas may be starring in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3!
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	Naachgaana.com » WB remembers Akira Kurosawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As a result, Kurosawa’s 1947 One Wonderful Sunday is perhaps his weakest film, an innocuous and sentimental story of a young couple who are too poor to get married.
		The mature Kurosawa appeared in the 1948 Drunken Angel.
		Here he displays not only a full command of fl-and-white filmmaking technique with his characteristic variety of pacing, lighting, and camera angles for maximum editorial effect, but his first use of soundimage counterpoints in the ‘‘Cuckoo Waltz’’ scene, where lively music contrasts with the dying gangster’s dark mood.
	www.naachgaana.com /item/1800 (1889 words)

	Aviator team to move to Kurosawa's Drunken Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Aviator team to move to Kurosawa's Drunken Angel
		Writer, Actor and Director are looking forward to develop a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel.
		DiCaprio is attached to star in the film, which Logan would write.
	www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/02/aviator_team_to_move_to_kurosawas_drunken_angel.html (297 words)

	Drunken Angel - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drunken Angel was released in 1948 and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
		You can find an interesting analysis of the positive and negative aspects of Post-war western influence on Japan here.
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