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- Drunken Angel (Criterion Collection DVD)
Drunken Angel (Criterion Collection DVD)
Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself," he explained later. "It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else." Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. Shimura tries to pull himself together long enough to save the life of young hoodlum Toshiro Mifune. The doctor feels that, by saving Mifune, he is retrieving a portion of his own lost youth and idealism. Kurosawa later observed that he had trouble corraling Tohsiro Mifune's improvisational instincts, but that "I did not want to smother that vitality." The end result in Drunken Angel is a supremely satisfying blend of Mifune's rapid-fire excesses and Kurosawa's even-handed control. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
SPECIAL FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• 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 Drunken Angel
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma and excerpts from Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography
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CRRN1728DVD
Number of Discs
1.00
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DVD
REGION CODE
1
Studio
CRITERION
Production Year
1948
Country
Japan
Release Date
11/27/2007
Director
Akira Kurosawa
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Fullscreen; B&W
Audio
Dolby Digital Mono
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
English
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