Dodesuka-den

The Resource Dodesuka-den
Label
Dodesuka-den
Statement of responsibility
Yonki no Kai, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha sakuhin ; kikaku, Yonki no Kai, Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke, Ichikawa Kon, Kobayashi Masaki ; Akira Kurosawa, Matsue Yōichi ; Kurosawa Akra, Oguni Hideo, Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku, Kurosawa Akira
Title variation
  • Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den
  • Dodes'ka-den
Contributor
Actor
Screenwriter
Director
Producer
Subject
Genre
Language
  • jpn
  • eng
  • jpn
  • jpn
Summary
This film follows the lives of the people who live in a slum, built in a garbage dump. A mentally disabled boy is obsessed with streetcars, driving an imaginary streetcar around, chanting "Dodes'ka-den! Dodes'ka-den!"--Mimicking the sound of the wheels. Some of the neighbors are a young woman living with her lecherous uncle; a pair of friends who get drunk and swap wives; a possibly mentally ill beggar and his son who live in a deserted car; and a man with five children who knows he is not the father of any, but treats them as if they were his own. Although they may dream of better times, these people are trapped--both physically and psychologically--doomed to live a life of disappointment (or worse), but many find ways to carry on
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Awards note
1971 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cinematography, Takao Saitō, Yasumichi Fukuzawa ; art direction by Yōshirō Muraki, Shinobu Muraki ; music by Tōru Takemitsu
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated
Language note
In Japanese with optional subtitles in English
PerformerNote
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yūko Kusunoki, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Michio Hino, Keiji Furuyama, Tappei Shimokawa, Kunie Tanaka, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Tatsuo Matsumura, Imari Tsuji, Tomoko Yamazaki, Masahiko Kametani, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Tomoko Naraoka, Noboru Mitani, Hiroyuki Kawase, Akemi Negishi, Eimei Esumi, Minoru Takashima, Kazuo Kato
Runtime
140
Series statement
The Criterion Collection
Series volume
465
Technique
live action
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