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Dodes'ka-den
★ 7.1· 1970· 140 min· Popularity 1
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.
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Release Date: 10/31/1970
Runtime: 140 minutes
Languages: Japanese
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Companies: Yonki-no-Kai Productions, TOHO
Countries: Japan
Where to watch · US
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Keywords
based on novel or bookslumdespairpovertymultiple storylinesgarbage dump dwellers
