Drunken Angel

The first of Kurosawa’s 16 collaborations with Toshiro Mifune, Drunken Angel finds the actor as a yakuza (a member of the Japanese mafia) being consumed by disease no less than his own criminal gang. It’s an assertively stylish noir film, evoking contemporary Italian neorealism as well as James Cagney–style gangster pictures. (98 mins., 35mm)

Print courtesy of Janus Films.

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