Yoidore Tenshi (1948)
Genre: Drama / Crime
Duration: 98 minuten
Alternative titles: Drunken Angel / 醉いどれ天使
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune and Reizaburô Yamamoto
IMDb score:
7,6 (14.585)
Releasedate: 27 April 1948
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Yoidore Tenshi plot
When gangster Matsunaga is injured in a gunfight, he goes to Doctor Sanada, who hates gangsters. Sanada diagnoses Matsunaga's tuberculosis and convinces him to allow him to treat it, even though the two don't get along. When the gangster leader is later released from prison, he wants to reunite his group, but Matsunaga doesn't want to anymore.
Actors and actresses
Sanada
Matsunaga
Okada
Nanae
Miyo
Gin
Singer
Takahama
Oyabun
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Such Kurosawa.
In the meantime I can estimate his work a little better. For example, I usually find his dramas a bit better than his genre work, I can clearly appreciate his short films better than his longer works and Shimura always emerges as the winner from the fight with Mifune. On paper this is a Kurosawa that should suit me better, fortunately it did.
Although there are certainly enough blemishes on this film. For example, Shimura's role is rather thick. Despite the fact that he is a sympathetic guy, it is sometimes a bit too thick. I can't seem to get used to Mifune's overacting, I thought he was by far the least character of the bunch. Maybe that's why the drama didn't really grab me in the end.
Visually it doesn't do much for me, the soundtrack also adds little or nothing. The rest is a film that looks pretty easy for an oldie, but which left me fairly resigned. I can see what Kurosawa is trying to do, but it just doesn't get to me.
2.0*
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6070 messages
- 2476 votes
Beautiful film, perhaps set up a bit schematically, but still fully alive due to the lived performances and the shades of gray in the characters. You can almost smell that mud puddle / garbage dump / bomb crater. Unlikely that Shimura is such a raw husk white pit here, but in Rashomon a dazed lumberjack, in Seven samurai an imperturbable mentor, in Ikiru ... and so on. Truly a giant.
For those who have seen this film in a version other than the Criterion Collection (like me, in an -otherwise excellent-looking- edition of the British Film Institute) here is a piece Ian Buruma wrote for Criterion: Drunken Angel: The Spoils of War | Current | The Criterion Collection
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
- 4552 votes
Decent movie. Dramatically a bit variable, especially because of the acting that was just too theatrical for me, but on the other hand told convincingly. The symbolism is also laid rather thickly, although that does not disturb. But otherwise well filmed; visually sometimes great with beautiful framing and camera angles. Furthermore, very nice guitar music, atmosphere, beautiful image of that time and a great pace so that the hour and a half fly by and you as a viewer do not have to get bored. 3.5*.
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