The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes94%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
320 audience votes
Key crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
- Keinosuke UekusaWriter
- Akira KurosawaWriter
Cast
- Takashi ShimuraSanada
- Toshirō MifuneMatsunaga
- Reizaburo YamamotoOkada
- Michiyo KogureNanae
- Chieko NakakitaMiyo
- Noriko SengokuGin
- Shizuko KasagiSinger
- Eitarō ShindōTakahama
- Masao ShimizuOyabun
- Taiji TonoyamaShop Proprietor
- Yoshiko KugaSchoolgirl
- Chōko IidaBâya