Sojiro Motoki - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Tunnel to the Sun (1968)

I Live in Fear (1967)

The Lower Depths (1962)

Throne of Blood (1961)

The Seven Samurai (1956)

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Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Think Like A Slave!

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Left To Drink

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Tunnel to the Sun (1968)

Producer (Feature Film)

I Live in Fear (1967)

The Lower Depths (1962)

Throne of Blood (1961)

The Seven Samurai (1956)

Battle of Roses (1950)

Stray Dog (1949)

Stray Dog (1949)

Shizukanaru naru ketto (1949)

Drunken Angel (1948)

Asu o Tsukuru Hitobito (1946)

Life Events

Videos

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Think Like A Slave! First domestic scene for Takashi Shimura as the title character, inebriate Tokyo doctor Sanada, arguing with granny (Choko Iida) and scolding his assistant and friend Miyo (Chieko Nakakita) for her fear of a gangster due to be released from prison, in Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel, 1948.

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Left To Drink Doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura, title character) has contrived an excuse to visit his new patient, gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) at his night club, aiming to scold him for failing to show him a damning x-ray, in grungy post-WWII Tokyo, in Kurosawa’s landmark Drunken Angel,1948.

Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Already Look Like A Ghost Staggering home in the Tokyo slums after a bad night, consumptive gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune, in his first picture for director Akira Kurosawa) tangles with snarky sometime-girlfriend Nanae (Michiyo Kogure), then meets dreaded crime boss Okada (Reizaburo Namamoto), just released from prison, in Drunken Angel, 1948.

Ikiru (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Stomach Belongs To... Credits and the memorable opening sequence introducing Takashi Shimura as the bureaucrat Watanabe, from Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed Ikiru, 1952.

Ikiru (1952) -- (Movie Clip) There Seems To Be A Deeper Issue Mournful bureacrat Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), hanging in a sakè bar on a quasi-bender because of his terminal cancer diagnosis, has just offered his spare sedatives to a hard-drinking novelist (Yunosuke Ito), who was ranting about having run out, in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, 1952.

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