Drunken Angel (1948)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
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This scene echoes similarly pitiful scenes in Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel and Rashomon: brawls between wannabe roughs afraid of brawling, but forced into it by their own bravado.
As impressively conceived as the heroin dens, juke joints, and whorehouses that we see are (though there�s an even better juke joint sequence in Kurosawa�s Drunken Angel), they don�t have much dramatic function since Kurosawa�s script wasn�t structured so that we really got a glimpse of �heaven�.