Dodes'ka-den1970
Director
Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Actors
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yūko Kusunoki, Junzaburō Ban, Kunie Tanaka, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hisashi Igawa, Tatsuo Matsumura, Kōji Mitsui, Kamatari Fujiwara
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 140 Minutes
Genres
About the film
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
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Ratings
7.1tmdb
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