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    Dodes'ka-den 1970 POSTER

    Dodes'ka-den

    1970

    Japanese

    7.3

    ♡ 15

    73%

    77%

    Action

    based on novel or book

    despair

    Drama

    garbage dump dwellers

    multiple storylines

    poverty

    slum

    Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa Director Akemi Negishi Akemi Negishi as Good-Looking Housewife Yûko Kusunoki Yûko Kusunoki as Misao Sawagami Kiyoko Tange Kiyoko Tange as Mrs. Shima Michiko Araki Michiko Araki as Restaurant proprietress
    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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