I've always appreciated legendary director Akira Kurosawa and have loved his movies Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood, but today my appreciation has grown to a whole new level. In my class solely devoted to Kurosawa, we watched his film Drunken Angel. To be perfectly honest, I didn't expect a whole lot, I wanted to see samurai fighting and really nothing else but I was pleasantly surprised with how well done the movie was.
The movie stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (ToshirÅ Mifune, in his first role working with Kurosawa), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with TB, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take his gang over once again. The sick young man then stops following the doctor's advice, slips back into old habits and threatens to kill him, while his life is further endangered by his gangster lifestyle.
Well directed and well acted, I recommend this for anyone who appreciates foreign films or at lest is willing to try something knew. Also I recommend it for Andrew Price and Tim Wecks...cause I know they'll like it
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