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Yakuza | Gangster
The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident with a bullet. The doctor, who despises the Yakuza, discovers the young man is suffering from tuberculosis, a disease symbolic of what is happening to the doctor and the community he serves. Facing his own anger and fear, the doctor aligns himself with the gangster's world. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune in prominet roles.
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The chaotic worlds of the Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor collide in this film noir classic from Akira Kurosawa. Gangster Toshiro Mifune visits doctor Takashi Shimura, after an unfortunate incident with a bullet. The doctor, who despises the Yakuza, discovers the young man is suffering from tuberculosis, a disease symbolic of what is happening to the doctor and the community he serves. Facing his own anger and fear, the doctor aligns himself with the gangster's world. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune in prominet roles.
Best Film | 1949 | Akira
In early drafts of the script, the story was almost entirely about Doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura) and Matsunaga the thug (Toshirô Mifune) was a small supporting part. However, Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with Mifune's performance that he greatly increased the Matsunaga part, to the point where the Doctor and Matsunaga are almost equal in screen-time.
The main character was inspired by a real life alcoholic doctor working unlicensed in the Tokyo black market district that Akira Kurosawa and writing partner and childhood friend Keinosuke Uekusa came across.
The performance of Toshirô Mifune as the violent young gangster, Matsunaga (his fourth overall and first in a Kurosawa movie), was so powerful and memorable that, according to director Akira Kurosawa, many people in Japan (and presumably elsewhere) falsely assume that the title, "Drunken Angel," was intended to refer to Matsunaga. But Kurosawa had actually intended the title character to be the alcoholic doctor, Sanada (played by Takashi Shimura), who treats Matsunaga, because, for the filmmaker, he is an "angel" for attempting to save the gangster from his illness and violent lifestyle, despite his own weakness for alcohol.
"Drunken Angel" is the first collaboration for Akira Kurosawa with both longtime actor Toshirô Mifune and longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka.
Shizuko Kasagi is seen performing a jazz number, "Jungle Boogie," in the nightclub sequence. She was a popular jazz singer in Japan, but her career suffered during World War II because it was tainted by associations with the musical idioms of the enemy, the U.S. After the war, as American G.I.'s occupied Japan and American popular music was widely heard, her career took off again, including a widely publicized concert tour of America.
"Dr. Sanada: The Japanese love to sacrifice themselves for stupid things."
"Dr. Sanada: Fall in love for someone like me, I may be scruffy but you get free medical care."
