Dodes'ka-den (Dodesukaden)
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“(OK) Kurosawa not just invented a world similar to the real poor one, but invented a style not known before in his cinema, the colour (also first time for him) helped to making it more fantastic, as in the secuences of the boy and the imaginary train or the faher and his dying son...” read more
" Notes: Back in the 90’s, I had the pleasure to discover Akira Kurosawa’s movies and I became overnight a huge fan of his work. Of all his movies I have seen so far, this must be the most underrated coming from this director but it is definitely one of the best he has made, at least, as far as I’m concerned. Indeed, I think it is an amazing movie dealing with the slums in Japan and, even though it might sound weird, I really loved its bleak and realistic approach. Indeed, all his famous s"
" Notes: Back in the 90’s, I had the pleasure to discover Akira Kurosawa’s movies and I became overnight a huge fan of his work. Of all his movies I have seen so far, this must be the most underrated coming from this director but it is definitely one of the best he has made, at least, as far as I’m concerned. Indeed, I think it is an amazing movie dealing with the slums in Japan and, even though it might sound weird, I really loved its bleak and realistic approach. Indeed, all his famous s"
"Directed by: Akira Kurosawa Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley."
"Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley. This was Akira Kurosawa's first colour movie, and is notable for how well he transitioned. After the success of "Red Beard", it took Kurosawa 5 years before this movie appeared. Very few of the actors from Kurosawa's stock company of the 1950s and 1960s were in it, and most of the cast were relatively unknown. "Dodesukaden" was unlike anything Kurosawa had m"