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Synopsis
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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I'm a huge Kurosawa fan, and particularly, his first color movie, Dodes'ka-den, which is such an odd film. It's a movie that I really admire, and it's very different from his other movies, but I like it very much. The way it's designed and the spirit of it.
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Japan · Japanese Golden Age
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