Drunken Angel
Friday, September 24 | 8 pmEast Building, Museum Auditorium
$5 ($3.50 Students, NCMA members, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)
(1948) Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto. (98 min.)
An alcoholic physician laboring in a postwar Tokyo slum treats a volatile gangster, fatally ill with TB. Kurosawa and Mifune’s first collaboration is this unforgettable film noir, set amid a squalid urban swamp symbolizing Japan’s national despair. “I wanted to take a scalpel and dissect the yakuza [crime syndicate].”—Akira Kurosawa
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