Japanese Film Trivia

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Who directed the 1948 Japanese film "Drunken Angel"?

Answer: Akira Kurosawa

Bonus fact: The film was an early breakthrough in Kurosawa’s career.

Which actor began his famous collaboration with Kurosawa in "Drunken Angel"?

Answer: Toshiro Mifune

Bonus fact: Mifune plays a volatile yakuza suffering from tuberculosis.

What profession does Takashi Shimura’s character have in "Drunken Angel"?

Answer: Doctor

Bonus fact: The alcoholic physician tries to persuade Mifune’s gangster to confront his illness and change his life.

Akira Kurosawa’s "Stray Dog" follows a police detective searching for what stolen item?

Answer: His pistol

Bonus fact: The stolen gun becomes linked to a series of crimes in postwar Tokyo.

Which actor plays the young detective Murakami in "Stray Dog"?

Answer: Toshiro Mifune

Bonus fact: Mifune’s tense young detective contrasts with Takashi Shimura’s more experienced veteran officer.

"Stray Dog" is often regarded as an early Japanese example of which genre?

Answer: Police procedural and film noir

Bonus fact: Kurosawa combines crime investigation with a vivid portrait of heat, poverty, and social dislocation in postwar Tokyo.