Dodes'ka-den

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-06-09

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

140 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (4132 Reviews)

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Yoshitaka Zushi Kin Sugai Toshiyuki Tonomura Shinsuke Minami

Writer:

Akira Kurosawa (screenplay)

Hideo Oguni (screenplay)

Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay)

Shègorè Yamamoto (novel)

Fullplot:

Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, an intellectually disabled boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support their parents by scrounging or by tedious and ill-paying endeavours; schemers who plot or dream of escaping the shackles of poverty.

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