For the song by Lucinda Williams, see Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
1948 Japanese film
Drunken Angel
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by
Keinosuke Uekusa [ja]
Akira Kurosawa
Produced by
Sōjirō Motoki
Starring
Takashi Shimura
Toshiro Mifune
Reizaburo Yamamoto
Noriko Sengoku
Cinematography
Takeo Itō [ja]
Edited by
Akikazu Kōno
Music by
Fumio Hayasaka
Production company
Toho
Distributed by
Toho
Release date
April 27, 1948 (1948-04-27)
Running time
98 minutes
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Drunken Angel (醉いどれ天使, Yoidore Tenshi) is a 1948 Japanese yakuza film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune.
DrunkenAngel (醉いどれ天使, Yoidore Tenshi) is a 1948 Japanese yakuza film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It is notable...
film Sanshiro Sugata (1943). After the war, the critically acclaimed DrunkenAngel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune...
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time [the end of the war] all began talking at once." Yoidore Tenshi (DrunkenAngel) – During the Toho strike of 1948, when Kurosawa could not work, he...
30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in DrunkenAngel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). He played...
the yakuza archetype, with his performance as a mobster in Kurosawa's DrunkenAngel (1948), the first yakuza film.[citation needed] Most of the sixteen...
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critique of corporate corruption. It is one of four films, along with DrunkenAngel (1948), Stray Dog (1949) and High and Low (1963), in which Kurosawa...
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Koda barges into the household of Michinojo in the middle of night in a drunken demand for Tomoe and challenges Michinojo to a duel which Seibei, believing...
London, England. Lucinda Williams wrote a Foley tribute song titled "DrunkenAngel" for her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Gurf Morlix wrote a...
Best Film 1946–1960 Aru yo no Tonosama (1946) Ima Hitotabi no (1947) DrunkenAngel (1948) Late Spring (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) Repast (1951) Ikiru...
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defeated in the war. Kasagi appeared in Akira Kurosawa's 1948 film DrunkenAngel, performing the song "Jungle Boogie", the lyrics to which were written...
depictions of bakuto generally faded. Mark Schilling named Akira Kurosawa's DrunkenAngel from 1948 as the first to depict post-war yakuza in his book The Yakuza...
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damage to those he was attempting to heal. Akira Kurosawa's 1948 film DrunkenAngel centers upon the efforts of Doctor Sanada, himself an alcoholic, to...
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