Dodes'ka-den

(1970)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 162 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1970

Runtime: 140 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Акира Куросава

Cast: 頭師佳孝, 菅井きん, Toshiyuki Tonomura, 三波伸介, 楠侑子, 伴淳三郎, 丹下キヨ子, 日野道夫, Keiji Furuyama, 下川辰平

Plot

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.