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Dodesʼka-den, Janus Films ; Toho Company Ltd. ; co-produced by Yonki No Kai and Toho Co., Ltd. ; concept by Club of the Four Knights: Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi ; executive producers, Akira Kurosawa and Yoichi Matsue ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, and Shinobu Hashimoto ; cinematography by Takao Saito, Yasumichi Fukuzawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

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Dodesʼka-den

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Janus Films ; Toho Company Ltd. ; co-produced by Yonki No Kai and Toho Co., Ltd. ; concept by Club of the Four Knights: Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi ; executive producers, Akira Kurosawa and Yoichi Matsue ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, and Shinobu Hashimoto ; cinematography by Takao Saito, Yasumichi Fukuzawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

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AK100, [disc 23]25 films by Akira Kurosawa

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 are a young woman living with her lecherous uncle; a pair of friends who get drunk and swap wives; a possibly mentally ill beggar and his son who live in a deserted car; and a man with five children who knows he is not the father of any, but treats them as if they were his own. Although they may dream of better times, these people are trapped--both physically and psychologically--doomed to live a life of disappointment (or worse), but many find ways to carry on

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