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Title:
Drunken angel [DVD video] = Yoidore tenshi
Title (Alt graphic):
Drunken angel [DVD video] = 醉いどれ天使
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
©2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
ISBN:
9781604650013
Abstract:
A yakuza mobster suffering from tuberculosis enters into an unusual relationship with an alcoholic doctor.
General Note:
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."
Performers:
Shimura Takashi, Mifune Toshiro.
Technical Details:
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono.
Language:
Japanese
Additional Language:
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated. No CHV rating available.
