Noir Alley screens Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel on TCM

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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.

Noir Beach Shack ♬

@noirbeachshack.bsky.social

Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel (1948) #NoirAlley #TCMParty #FilmNoir See you in the shadows...

13992d ago

CT Million

@ctmillion.bsky.social

Not many could rock a white double-breasted linen suit like Toshiro Mifune could. #NoirAlley #DrunkenAngel #TCMParty

Actor Toshiro Mifune in the 1948 film Drunken Angel

9492d ago

pelicansblue.bsky.social2

My sister thinks he is a god

Frank Vatel

@frankvatel312.bsky.social

#NoirAlley raises the bar tonight with DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948), an early Kurosawa film about an alcoholic doctor who forms an uneasy bond with a TB-stricken gangster. It’s a crime picture, but an unusually human one—closer, in some ways, to a tender masterpiece like Ikiru than High and Low. #TCMParty

5792d ago

Phyll Indablank

@phyllindablank.bsky.social

Salutations noiristas! Here for #DrunkenAngel smoke 'em if you got 'em y'all 😉😶‍🌫️ #NoirAlley #TCMParty

3392d ago

Hello Andrew2

He’s so young! Reminds me of James Dean.

DBjorkCA 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2

It was great to meet you on Thursday!

Film Noir Foundation

@noirfoundation.bsky.social

. @eddiemuller.bsky.social looking glamorous on the #TCMFF red carpet on opening night. #noiralley

2091d ago

Swaying Flowers

@amberkeating.net

NW: Drunken Angel (1948). It’s really only been in the last year that I’ve watched any #Kurosawa films, all thanks to #TCM. I learned the legendary director’s name decades ago b/c of a Barenaked Ladies song, but never got interested enough to seek out the films 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now I’m a fan! #TCMParty #NoirAlley

2292d ago

A Nick Charles

@nickcharles.bsky.social

So it’s just exhaustion for your dear Nick. Spiked fever, weakened, but coherent. Not Covid or RSV or the Cold. Or TB. Or typhus from that water. Or bullet wound sepsis. (I was smarter than that.) -& certainly not drunk… 21 cases in 3 weeks isn’t healthy. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #DrunkenAngel 🕵️‍♂️🥃

2092d ago

Andrija Popovic9

Watch yourself, you'll end up with drunk, feverish, and losing all your money in a smokey gambling den while hacking up blood. And *then* Sanada-San will yell at you. #NoirAlley #TCMparty #DrunkenAngel

Andrija Popovic

@andrian6.bsky.social

Once again, Eddie's introduction provides vital background on the state of Japan - and Kurasawa - during the making of #DrunkenAngel. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

2392d ago

Josh the Monster 86

@joshthemonster86.bsky.social

Now I must ask: who are these jabronis crying about Eddie showing non-English movies? #TCMParty #NoirAlley

2192d ago

millerfilm7

Subtitles. Plus, people probably don't think about Film Noir being an outside-the-U.S. thing, even though the genre has a French name. #DrunkenAngel #TCMParty #NoirAlley

leeia3

Not me! I've been watching Fellini's Amarcord this week. And yes, it's taken me a few nights to wade through it. #DrunkenAngel #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Andrija Popovic2

"Subtitles, Motherfuckers! Can you read them??!?"

Aldo Gandia

@aldobarkeeper.bsky.social

Hope you enjoy Akira Kurosawa's #DunkenAngel, this week's #NoirAlley screening. I've never seen it and will focus on reading the subtitles. #TCMParty with Toshiro Mifune. See ya next week in the shadows

1892d ago

It's MS. Sobotka

@stacysobotka.bsky.social

Konbanwa, noiristas. (Good evening in Japanese) Ready for Drunken Angel. #Noiralley #TCMParty

1792d ago

Up next on TCM

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DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948) — 12:00 am ET — 1h 38m (Noir Alley) Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Michiyo Kogure; directed by Akira Kurosawa An alcoholic doctor builds a shaky friendship with a dying gangster. #TCM #TCMParty

1392d ago