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Dodes'ka-den

Original title: どですかでん

1970 · 2 h 20 · Japan · Japanese

  • Drama

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.

Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Based on
Shūgorō Yamamoto

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