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Dodeska-den Criterion Collection.

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 ar...

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Main Authors: Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. (Producer), Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996. (Screenwriter), Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018. (Screenwriter), Takemitsu, Tåoru. (Composer), Yamamoto, Shåugoråo, 1903-1967. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Tåohåo Kabushiki Kaisha., Yonki-no-Kai, Inc., Janus Films., Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Kinoshita, Keisuke, 1912-1998. (Producer), Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008. (Producer), Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996. (Producer), Matsue, Yåoichi. (Producer), Saitåo, Takao, 1920- (Cinematographer), Fukuzawa, Yasumichi. (Cinematographer), Zushi, Yoshitaka. (Actor), Sugai, Kin, 1926- (Actor), Tonomura, Toshiyuki. (Actor), Ban, Junzaburo. (Actor), Tange, Kiyoko. (Actor), Tanaka, Kunie, 1932- (Actor), Yoshimura, Jitsuko, 1943- (Actor), Igawa, Hisashi. (Actor), Okiyama, Hideko. (Actor), Matsumura, Tatsuo, 1914-2005. (Actor), Akutagawa, Hiroshi, 1920-1981. (Actor), Naraoka, Tomoko, 1929- (Actor), Mitani, Noboru. (Actor), Kawase, Hiroyuki. (Actor)
Format: DVD
Language:Japanese
English
Published: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2009, 1970.
Series:Criterion Collection.
25 films by Akira Kurosawa.
Subjects:
Slums > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Poor > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Fathers and sons > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Women > Abuse of > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Boys > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Feature films > Japan.
Tokyo (Japan) > Social conditions > 20th century > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.

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