Dodes'ka-den

Original title: どですかでん

• 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.

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Released

31 October 1970

Studio

Yonki-no-Kai Productions, TOHO

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