Dodes'ka-den(1970)

movie - first aired/released 1970-10-31 - 140 min - audience 7.1

Drama

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

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.