Drunken Angel

• Takashi Shimura as Sanada, the doctor
• Toshiro Mifune as Matsunaga, the gangster
• Reisaburo Yamamoto Okada, the gang leader
• Chieko Nakakita as Miyo, the nurse
• Michiyo Kogure as Nanae, Matsunagas lover
• Noriko Sengoku as gin, the bar girls
• Eitaro Shindo as Takahama, the friend of the Doctor
• Choko Iida as the old servant

Angel of the Lost (Japanese醉い どれ 天使, Tenshi Yoidore, dt " the drunken angel " ) is a Japanese Toho movie from 1948, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Action

In an unnamed city in post-war Japan, a doctor with a drinking problem and a wounded gangster meet. The evolving relationship between two and gangsterism and the social, moral situation of Japan are main subjects of the film.

Others

The film is the first collaboration Toshiro Mifune and Kurosawa, at the same time it is also the first starring Mifune. Kurosawa said about this movie that he was the first one he really was able to make themselves.