Dodes'ka-den

19702h 20mNo ratings yet

Drama

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
multiple storylines
slum
despair
poverty
garbage dump dwellers

Details

Status: Released
Release date: October 31, 1970
Original language: Japanese
Spoken languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO,Yonki-no-Kai Productions
Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi,Kin Sugai,Toshiyuki Tonomura,Shinsuke Minami,Yūko Kusunoki,Junzaburō Ban,Kiyoko Tange,Michio Hino,Keiji Furuyama,Tappei Shimokawaand 37 more
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa,Shūgorō Yamamoto,Shinobu Hashimoto,Hideo Oguni
Producer: Keisuke Kinoshita,Akira Kurosawa,Yōichi Matsue,Kon Ichikawa,Masaki Kobayashi
Cinematography: Takao Saitō
Music: Toru Takemitsu
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0065649