Dodes'ka-den

Name: Dodes'ka-den
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970
Duration: 2 h 20 min

Japanese · どですかでん

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

1970

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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.

Released: 31 Oct 1970
Runtime: 140 min
Also known as: 没有季节的小墟, Dodesukaden, Под стук трамвайных колёс, Skjebner i slummen
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cinematography: Takao Saitō
Music: Tōru Takemitsu
Editor: Reiko Kaneko
Elsewhere: TMDB