Dodes’ka-den (1970)

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on. The unforgettable Dodes’ka-den was made at a tumultuous moment in Kurosawa’s life. And all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion are on fervent display in this, his gloriously shot first color film.
Akira Kurosawa
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yûko Kusunoki, Junzaburô Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Michio Hino, Keiji Furuyama, Tappei Shimokawa, Kunie Tanaka, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Tatsuo Matsumura, Imari Tsuji, Tomoko Yamazaki, Noboru Mitani, Hiroyuki Kawase, Masahiko Kametani, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Tomoko Naraoka, Akemi Negishi, Eimei Esumi, Minoru Takashima, Kazuo Katô, Michiko Araki, Masakazu Kuwayama, Hiroshi Kiyama, Kôji Mitsui, Jerry Fujio, Masahiko Tanimura, Atsushi Watanabe, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sanji Kojima, Kayako Sono, Yoshiko Maki, Toshiko Sakurai, Toriko Takahara, Matsue Ono, Reiko Niimura, Akira Hitomi, Takashi Ebata, Shôji Ichimura, Shin Ibuki, Minoko Kaizuka, Masaya Nihei, Toki Shiozawa
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