Disturbing Japanese horror. A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio, where he has surrounded himself with perverse monuments to the female form. With the model, the sculptor works out his erotic and artistic obsessions, in a world where sight has been replaced by touch.

Classic early drama from Japanese master Akira Kurosawa which pays homage to the Warner Brothers' thirties gangster movies. Takashi Shimura plays the drunken angel of the title, a doctor working in a devastatingly poor area of immediately-post-war Tokyo. The area is overrun with competing gangsters who have lost most of their power during the American occupation. Toshiro Mifune - in the first leading role that made him a star - plays a handsome young hoodlum who one night comes to the doctor's surgery with a small bullet wound in his hand. The doctor treats the wound but also diagnoses Mifune as having tuberculosis. The gangster's arrogance prevents him from acknowledging his illness, but his position within his organisation increasingly comes under threat.

At the height of the Cold War, ageing Japanese foundry owner Kiichi Nakajima decides that he and his entire family must emigrate to Brazil in order to find safety from potential nuclear attack. The rest of the family, unwilling to sell up and move, attempt to have Kiichi declared mentally incompetent. Akira Kurosawa, more renowned for period films like 'Rashomon' (1950) and 'Seven Samurai' (1954), directs this contemporary drama which is seen as his attack on the complacency of most of the world to the threat of the Cold War and the atomic bomb.