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Film · 0 connectionsDodes'ka-den (1970)
- Drama
- 140 min
- 6 age guide
- ★ 7.1/10 from 162 ratings
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.
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
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