The Kurosawa Century #1: Post-War Noirs: Drunken Angel (1948) & Stray Dog (1949)

Drunken Angel (1948, 98 Minutes) The fragile relationship between a doctor and patient shapes the tragic realism of Drunken Angel . An early entry in Akira Kurosawa's canon, the film starred Takashi Shimura (Sato) and Toshiro Mifune (Matsunaga). Set in a swampy area of Tokyo shortly after the war, the insular setting to the film reinforces its themes of existential angst and entrapment. Mifune's a…