"Drunken Angel"
1948
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Takashi Shimura plays a doctor who tries to bring about the spiritual and physical recovery of the human debris who live in the ashes of a poor quarter of Tokyo immediately after the war. Toshiro Mifune is an uprooted petty gambler and black-marketeer committed to life outside the law. "Akira Kurosawa's first critical success is an odd blend of American film noir and Italian neorealism" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader). Japanese with English subtitles.  98 minutes.