Takeo Ito


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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.
Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Leech Following up on their violent meeting the night before, inebriate doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura) pursues gangster Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) to his lair in the slums, early in Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel, 1948.
Drunken Angel (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Call That A Nail? Following the credits, getting familiar with the cesspool, Toshiro Mifune, as gangster Matsunaga, in his first scene in his first film with director Akira Kurosawa, visits doctor Sanada (Takashi Shimura), in the celebrated post-war Japan morality play, Drunken Angel, 1948.

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