Dodes'ka-den

1970 140 min 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

writers Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

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