Dodes'ka-den

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Akira Kurosawa

Status Released

Release Date 1970-10-31

Storyline

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.