Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection (DVD)

In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken Angel is an evocative, moody snapshot of a treacherous time and place, featuring one of the director's most memorably violent climaxes. Special Features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie A 30-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: An essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma and excerpts from Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.