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Drunken Angel

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1959Jpn5.0 / 533.3k views

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.

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