Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi)

One man waits at the edge of the swamp knowing that one day he'll be pulled under like everything else.

Willow Maclay

#madlad Mifune About halfway into Drunken Angel, a white flower is thrown in the swampy lake stretching out like some eerie omen in the middle of the neighborhood. The rotten water opens its mouth and yawns in the mud-brown stillness – but the flower stays on the surface.…

Lara Pop

I spoke yesterday of tigers. I read after my review that Toshiro Mifune was considered for the title role in Dersu Uzala, but watching him here, in his ragged youth, I think he would have been better as the tiger anyway. He is certainly a predator, nearly as unhinged here…

Sally Jane Black

Denial, denial, denial, denial, denial, bargaining, reflection -- the seven stages of grief of an egotistical man. Kurosawa says, "ego is the ultimate obstacle towards recovery" and mifune with his violent bursts of anger brought that statement to life. The remarkable…

YI JIAN

love it when a noir is so hardboiled that it basically turns into a horror film. kurosawa's brutal depiction of the wasting disease eating away at toshiro mifune's yakuza is a descent into the dregs of total despair; the third act's dutch angles, hollowed faces and…

comrade_yui

My first Kurosawa, and my first Mifune, and what can I say, it was a total success. To the extent that I am writing this with one eye smiling, the other one crying. I want to keep this short because there is no way I could properly write about this film without getting…

Anna Imhof 🌸

"O Anjo Embriagado" é um filme que propõe uma reflexão sobre a relação entre o médico alcoólatra Doutor Sanada e o mafioso Matsunaga, um membro da Yakuza que sofre de tuberculose. Enquanto o médico insiste em ajudá-lo a se tratar, Matsunaga resiste, recusando-se a mudar de…

Barmilliv

Drunken Angel is an early yakuza movie, though it's different to what we may later consider typical for yakuza films. It's also probably Akira Kurosawa's first masterpiece. He was a director of broad strokes and so this story of a good man trying to save a gangster is…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

Getting a FilmStruck account was the best decision of 2018 lol

Karsten