This Blu-ray doesn’t quite represent Criterion at its transformative best, but that’s admittedly a tall order anyway.
“You tired of being stupid yet?” Sanjuro’s insult is praise: He loves you, too.
Country, heal thyself: Kurosawa’s feverish early gem is worth catching.
Kurosawa Akira often referred to Drunken Angel as the movie in which the Japanese director finally found his style.
By film’s end, you weep for Oharu because you hope that in death she will be able to find what she was looking for in life.