Dodes'ka-den
Film19702h 20mReleased
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- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Language
- Japanese
- Released
- 1970-10-31
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
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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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