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Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Drama
Release Date: 1970, October 31
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Countries: Japan
Production: Yonki-no-Kai Productions, TOHO
Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Matsue Ono, Toriko Takahara, Hisashi Igawa, Tomoko Naraoka, Kōji Mitsui, Kazuo Katō, Kin Sugai, Jerry Fujio, Hiroshi Kiyama, Kunie Tanaka

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book poverty multiple storylines slum despair garbage dump dwellers