I'm quite a big fan of 'Drunken Angel'. Toshiro is even better as a slick, albeit unhealthy, gangster than as a samurai. The narrative flaws of the film disturb me not. It is rendered more beautifully than a lot of Kurosawa's supposedly more visually pleasing works. But, really, if you're into Kurosawa you should certainly check out Mizoguchi and Ozu, both far greater formal filmmakers than Kurosawa, who always placed content first. A little bit of Seijun Suzuki wouldn't go astray, either.