Drunken Angel
Somber and moody Kurosawa is interesting in how it marries a grotty noirish feel with a study of disease-of-the-week tuberculosis – I’m reminded of the fixation on syphilis in Kurosawa’s THE QUIET DUEL and am wondering how many other early films share this odd focus on illness! It ultimately becomes a sometimes too ponderous and wordy dissertation on the contrasting personalities of Shimura and Mifune, ultimately leading to a quite bleak and disconcerting finale, with a strange epilogue that seems to want to force a happy resolution. Intriguing enough, and might be one to circle back to.
Mini Review: Somber and moody Kurosawa is interesting in how it marries a grotty noirish feel with a study of disease-of-the-week tuberculosis – I’m reminded of the fixation on syphilis in Kurosawa’s THE QUIET DUEL and am wondering how many other early films share this odd focus on illness! It ultimately becomes a sometimes too ponderous and wordy dissertation on the contrasting personalities of Shimura and Mifune, ultimately leading to a quite bleak and disconcerting finale, with a strange epilogue that see
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