Movie
Drunken Angel
Overview
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
Details
- Release date
- 1948-04-27
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TOHO
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Takashi Shimura as Sanada
- Toshirō Mifune as Matsunaga
- Reizaburo Yamamoto as Okada
- Michiyo Kogure as Nanae
- Chieko Nakakita as Miyo
- Noriko Sengoku as Gin
- Shizuko Kasagi as Singer
- Eitarō Shindō as Takahama
- Masao Shimizu as Oyabun
- Taiji Tonoyama as Shop Proprietor
- Yoshiko Kuga as Schoolgirl
- Chōko Iida as Bâya
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa - Director
- Keinosuke Uekusa - Writer
- Akira Kurosawa - Writer
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