Repetitious duel of wills between an alcoholic doctor (Takashi Shimura) and a tubercular thug (a very young and very histrionic Toshiro Mifune), mired together in a sort of urban swamp. The element of realism, in the postwar manner, does not conceal for a moment that the whole thing is allegoric. An early critical success for Kurosawa, though he did much better with the same milieu the following year, in Stray Dog, and several times later. (1948) — Duncan Shepherd
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