Drunken angel [videorecording] / Toho Company Ltd.; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:1).
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Kurosawa and the censors. Akira Kurosawa : It is wonderful to create Spoils of war Something like an autobiography
Notes:
Shimura Takashi, Mifune Toshiro. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Special features: optional audio commentary by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie, "It is wonderful to create" a making-of documentary (31 min.), "Kurosawa and the censors", a video essay on the the censorship challenges facing the production (25 min.). Program notes on container insert include an essay, "Spoils of war", by author Ian Baruma, and two chapters excerpted from Kurosawa's 1983 autobiography, "Something like an autobiography".
Summary:
A yakuza mobster suffering from tuberculosis enters into an unusual relationship with an alcoholic doctor.
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