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Reviews for Dodes'ka-den

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7.2 / 10 2h 20min

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.

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Review by user446ybe9yoea

The horrors of hand to mouth living...

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Review by SunlitSalamander

obscure and underrated; it's another of Kurosawa's dramas on the lower class, this time bleaker, a little more abstract, still a masterpiece

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Review by user680x9a5046y

less a movie, more a strange experience

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Review by user5682r1vw7lx

Kurosawa (more colorful and yet more somber than usual) shows the merit and limit of imagination...

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Review by user6976nbgavfv

Not my favorite Kurosawa film, but definitely worth checking out

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Review by user649i7lzx27u

Your family are those who love you

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Review by RubyRaven

Kurosawa's untypical masterpiece

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Review by user709qjn68a2i

A simultaneously warm and bleak film from an evolving Kurosawa

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Review by user863z8ct2yea

An expressionistic pageant of The Human Comedy that ranks with the Best of Kurosawa

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Review by user742juvd8ls7

beautiful/tragic character study

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Review by JungleJester

Sad Stories in the Slums of Tokyo

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Review by user48zkg57i63

It helps if you understand Nichiren Buddhism