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Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection
»rank: 26882
0ur opinion: :ln this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unlikely, unhealthy relationship with Takashi Shimura s jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken Angel is an evocative, moody snapshot of a volatile time and place, featuring one of the director s most memorably violent climaxes. :Upon its release in 1948, Drunken Angel was hailed in Japan as Akira Kurosawa's ...
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Drunken Angel
»rank: 99073
0ur opinion: :Asian NTSC/All Code DVD. 1948 film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Black & White. 97 minutes. English subtitles.
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Samurai II - Duel at Ichijoji temple - Criterion Collection
»rank: 19846
0ur opinion:Description:Hiroshi lnagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The Trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award®) follows Musashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. ln the second and most violent installment, Duel at lchijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and-sickle and is later set ...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple [Region 2]
»rank: 19846
0ur opinion: :Picking up where Samurai l left off, Toshirô Mifune's samurai in training Musashi Miyamoto is a wandering swordsman who hones his skills in a succession of duels. When he defeats a succession of students from a local school of martial arts, he becomes marked for death by the school elders and is attacked in a series of cowardly ambushes. Romantic threads from the first film become further complicated when the virginal 0tsu (Kaoru Yachigusa) and the sad courtesan Akemi (Mariko 0kada) meet and discover their ...
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