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Noir Alley screens Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel on TCM

tvMay 3, 202621419

TCM's Noir Alley screened Akira Kurosawa's 1948 film Drunken Angel tonight, with host Eddie Muller opening the broadcast. The film pairs Toshiro Mifune as a tuberculosis-infected yakuza with Takashi Shimura as the weary doctor in postwar Tokyo, depicting poverty, disease, and moral decay. The broadcast underscored Kurosawa's early collaboration with Mifune and the film's raw blend of noir visuals and social realism, a milestone that helped reshape Japanese cinema after World War II.

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