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Drunken Angel (1948)
★ 7.6 · 309 ratings on TMDB
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
CastChieko Nakakita, Eitarō Shindō, Masao Shimizu, Michiyo Kogure, Noriko Sengoku, Reizaburo Yamamoto
GenresDrama
The emergence reading
Drunken Angel keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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