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

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.