DVD
Drunken angel = Yoidore tenshi
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Special ed.
Languages
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Reizaburō Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku, Shizuko Kasagi.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Near the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, a volatile, tubercular criminal strikes up an unlikely relationship with a jaded physician.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Special features: audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie ; a 31-minute documentary on the making of Drunken angel, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa : it is wonderful to create ; Kurosawa and the censors, a new 25-minute video piece that looks at the challenges Kurosawa faced in making Druken angel.