Description:
In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unlikely, unhealthy relationship with Takashi Shimura s jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken Angel is an evocative, moody snapshot of a volatile time and place, featuring one of the director s most memorably violent climaxes.
Special Features:
- New, restored hi-def digital transfer
- New audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- A 30-minute documentary on the making of Drunken Angel
- A new video piece that looks at the challenges Kurosawa faced from the censors
- PLUS: An essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma
- A reprint from Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography
