Dodes'ka-den (1970)

7 | Oct 31, 1970 (JP) | Drama | 02:20

based on novel or book slum despair poverty multiple storylines garbage dump dwellers

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.