Dodes'ka-den (Japanese: どですかでん, Hepburn: Dodesukaden, onomatopoeia term equivalent to "Clickety-clack") is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, and Shinsuke Minami.

Dodes'ka-den: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami. Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Oct 6, 2020 · Resolution and contrast look good. The srt file synchs well with the dialogue. Great looking transfer, but the image freezes about half way through when playing the MP4. Hopefully this gets amended.

The unforgettable DODES’KA-DEN was made at a tumultuous moment in Kurosawa’s life. And all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion are on fervent display in this, his gloriously shot first color film.

Dec 31, 2014 · Akira Kurosawa's first film in colour follows a group of people living around a city dump and is by turns both tragic and transcendent. Made at a critical point is his life, Kurosawa poured himself into this film and negative reaction it garnered resulted in a suicide attempt.

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo.

“Dodes’ka-den” is a film quite unlike the other Kurosawas I’ve seen. It takes place for the most part in an urban trash heap — sort of an extension of the ash lands in Fitzgerald’s “ The Great Gatsby ” — where an assortment of shantytown dwellers live largely circular existences.

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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.