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A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 73%. Scores higher than 75% of the 1,064 1970s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
160 audience votes
Key crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Yoshitaka ZushiRoku-Chan
- Kin SugaiOkuni
- Toshiyuki TonomuraTaro Sawagami
- Shinsuke MinamiRyotaro Sawagami
- Yūko KusunokiMisao Sawagami
- Junzaburō BanYukichi Shima
- Kiyoko TangeMrs. Shima
- Michio HinoMr. Ikawa
- Keiji FuruyamaMr. Matsui
- Tappei ShimokawaMr. Nomoto
- Kunie TanakaHatsutaro Kawaguchi
- Jitsuko YoshimuraYoshie Kawaguchi
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or bookslumdespairpovertymultiple storylinesgarbage dump dwellers
The Best Movies of 1970
Dodes'ka-den is #29 of 60
