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Yoidore tenshi = Drunken angel / Toho Company Ltd.; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
醉いどれ天使 配給東宝株式会社 ; 製作本木莊二郎 ; 脚本植草圭之助, 黒澤明 ; 監督黒澤明.
LIBRA DVD 010 331
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 413.
- Criterion collection ; 413
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis--Patients.
- Alcoholics.
- Physicians.
- Yakuza.
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Yakuza--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Physicians--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Alcoholics--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Tuberculosis--Patients--Drama.
- Tuberculosis.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Feature films.
- Film noir.
- Gangster films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container spine: Drunken angel
- Akira Kurosawa : It is wonderful to create
- Something like an autobiography
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A yakuza mobster suffering from tuberculosis enters into an unusual relationship with an alcoholic doctor.
- Participant:
- Shimura Takashi, Mifune Toshiro.
- 志村喬, 三船敏郎.
- Credits:
- Cinematography by Ito Takeo ; music by Hayasaka Fumio.
- Cinematography by 伊藤武夫 ; music by 早坂文雄.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Special features: optional audio commentary by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie, "It is wonderful to create" a making-of documentary (31 min.), "Kurosawa and the censors", a video essay on the the censorship challenges facing the production (25 min.).
- Program notes on container insert include an essay, "Spoils of war", by author Ian Baruma, and two chapters excerpted from Kurosawa's 1983 autobiography, "Something like an autobiography".
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Kurosawa and the censors.
- Spoils of war
- ISBN:
- 9781604650013
- 160465001X
- OCLC:
- 173190466
- Publisher Number:
- 715515026826
- CC1728 Criterion Collection
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