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Dodes'ka-den
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is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, and Shinsuke Minami. It is based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1962 novel A City Without Seasons and is about a group of homeless and poverty-stricken people living on the outskirts of Tokyo.
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Dodes'ka-den is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also served as producer. The screenplay was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, and Shinobu Hashimoto. The cast includes Kamatari Fujiwara, Kin Sugai, Kunie Tanaka, and Jitsuko Yoshimura. The film was produced by Toho and Yonki-no-Kai Productions, with music composed by Tōru Takemitsu and cinematography by Takao Saito.
The movie has a runtime of 140 minutes and was originally in Japanese. It was distributed by Toho and released on October 31, 1970. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. It holds a review score of 73% and an IMDb rating of 7.3. The narrative is described as having multiple storylines set in a slum, dealing with themes of despair and poverty.
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Film · TMDB
7.1On 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.
Cast
- Yoshitaka Zushi as Roku-Chan
- Kin Sugai as Okuni
- Toshiyuki Tonomura as Taro Sawagami
- Shinsuke Minami as Ryotaro Sawagami
- Yūko Kusunoki as Misao Sawagami
- Junzaburō Ban as Yukichi Shima
Themes
- based on novel or book
- slum
- despair
- poverty
- multiple storylines
- garbage dump dwellers
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
8,176 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
73%
- Year
- 1970
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Dodes'ka-den
- Film.image
- Dodeskaden.JPG
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.screenplay
- Akira KurosawaHideo OguniShinobu Hashimoto
- Film.producer
- Akira KurosawaYoichi MatsueKeisuke KinoshitaKon IchikawaMasaki Kobayashi
- Film.starring
- Yoshitaka ZushiKin SugaiToshiyuki TonomuraShinsuke Minami
- Film.director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Film.music
- Tōru Takemitsu
- Film.editing
- Reiko Kaneko
- Film.cinematography
- Takao SaitoYasumichi Fukuzawa
- Film.studio
- TohoYonki no Kai Productions
- Film.distributor
- Toho
- Film.runtime
- 140 minutes
- Film.country
- Japan
- Film.language
- Japanese
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenwriter
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Cast member
- Tomoko Naraoka
- Composer
- Tōru Takemitsu
- Producer
- Akira Kurosawa
- Production company
- Toho
- Cinematographer
- Takao Saito
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 811842
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- publication date
- 1970-01-01
- title
- どですかでん
- distributed by
- Toho
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 73%
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
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Encyclopedic overview
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is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, and Shinsuke Minami. It is based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's 1962 novel A City Without Seasons and is about a group of homeless and poverty-stricken people living on the outskirts of Tokyo.
''Dodes'ka-den'' was Kurosawa's first film in five years, his first without actor Toshiro Mifune since Ikiru in 1952, and his first without composer Masaru Sato since Seven Samurai in 1954. Filming began on April 23, 1970, and ended 28 days later. This was Kurosawa's first-ever color film and had a budget of only . In order to finance the film, Kurosawa mortgaged his house, but it failed at the box office, grossing less than its budget, leaving him with large debts and, at sixty-one years old, dim employment prospects. Kurosawa's disappointment culminated one year later on December 22, 1971, when he attempted suicide.
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