Drunken Angel(酔いどれ天使)
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Japan · 1948
1h 38m
Director Akira Kurosawa
Starring Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Genre Drama
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A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
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