Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den

  • Director: Akira Kurosawa
  • Writer: Akira Kurosawa,Hideo Oguni,Shinobu Hashimoto
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Release date: October 17, 1974
  • Runtime: 2 hours 20 minutes
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Asunarove price
    • "どですかでん" is a drama film directed by Wind Man , starred by the head teacher Jia Xiao , Ban Junzaburo, Watanabe Atsushi, Igawa Bisashi, etc. It was released on October 31, 1970.
    Based on the short story collection "A Town Without Seasons" by Ichiro Yamamoto, the film tells the stories of joys and sorrows that happen to people living in a town that looks like a ruin   .

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    • Release date October 17, 1974
    • Filming locations Horie-cho, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
    • Production companies Yonki-no-Kai Productions, Toho Company

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $981

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    • By Reymundo 2022-12-22 07:50:31

      Japanese Folk Variations After World War II

      "Trolley Mania" received such a flood of negative reviews that it almost killed Akira Kurosawa's film "Am I going to make a samurai movie that will kill me all my life until I die?" . Can you make a movie that bravely uncovers the scars of the Japanese people and reflects the current social situation, just to be the honest child in the emperor's new clothes, even if he dies in the end, it should be valuable and have no regrets, right? So he made this film. Akira Kurosawa's film is really...

    • By Tillman 2022-12-20 13:27:29

      Rescue and self-help

      Chaotic, blind life, no trajectory to follow, everything is irregular. Because human nature itself is blind and irregular, the existence of each special individual is without precedent. Looking at the people in "A Small Market Without Seasons", it seems that they are looking at all living beings. Today, they don't know what will happen tomorrow, so they have to go on according to the current situation. Today's decision may be a temporary emotional impulse, or it may be based on...

    • By Ryley 2022-12-19 02:42:34

      Anxious life

      There are various situations in the market, nightmares and struggles from the bottom! The tram idiot is immersed in an ethereal dream every day, and he doesn't pay any attention to the outside world, leaving only the sad old mother who weeps and sighs every day. Here is the husband who works hard but gets drunk every night and lives a 'harmonious' life of exchanging wives, the mute Katsuko is squeezed by a lazy and wretched uncle to live a life of walking dead; there is the repentant...

    • By Josephine 2022-12-12 11:28:31

      group of weird people

          A mother who sells cakes prays constantly every day, and frowns for her mentally handicapped son; the son is actually enjoying himself, leaving early and returning late every day, driving eight trams, and working diligently. Of course, the trams and tracks are virtual.
          An uncle suffering from poliomyelitis and epilepsy, even a group of viper women in the village thought he was a great man, but he had a tigress wife, fat and strong, who went out to buy vegetables with a cigarette...

    • By Rachael 2022-12-11 19:49:57

      Akira Kurosawa and Color

      Akira Kurosawa's first color film. As expected of a person who once wanted to be a painter, his control of color is also very good. It's just that he focuses on marginal characters, the theme deviates from the taste of mainstream audiences, and he is destined to suffer a fiasco at the box office.

      Some colors that impress:

      1. Tram-crazy boy: As a mentally retarded, he may be the only happy person in the film, driving away every day in the tram of his imagination. His...

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    • By Dorian 2023-09-04 09:53:25

      Probably the most peculiar movie in Akira Kurosawa's films, but it's also my favorite one so far. Life is like a glass bottle of destiny thrown away by God shattered into pieces of different shapes, and the piece that belongs to everyone reflects the Unusual colors, unique textures and...

    • By Jaime 2023-08-17 20:00:38

      The music is great. Akira Kurosawa has big ambitions, but it is not very friendly to ordinary audiences. It wants to be all-encompassing and full of meaning. . Some dream style. However, the type of entertainment is not strong, and it is doomed to fail at the box office. . But it really was a great failure. . The more grandiose and pitiful shadow warriors that appeared later, Chaos must have a direct relationship with the failure of this...

    • By Martina 2023-07-25 07:18:02

      2018.12.08 at the Film Archive. I watched it together with "I have no regrets about my youth", and it was very sad after reading it. All are wonderful masterpieces. Strangelove Greg said that this is Akira Kurosawa's first color film. The suffering of the people at the bottom always makes me empathize. The destitute father and his begging son fantasized about building a house and a swimming pool. The colorful and fantastical colors and soundtrack are hilarious. Apart from food, their biggest nee

    • By Trever 2023-06-01 03:51:40

      The irony of realism beneath the delusional...

    • By Georgianna 2023-05-24 17:16:29

      The part where Yukichi Lame Island brought his colleagues home was wonderful. Akira Kurosawa was unhappy with the actor who played the bad uncle, and the actor asked the assistant director nervously. 渋皮のむけた Female... Negishi Akemi, the old man... Fujiwara Kazuzu. Yukichi Shima..........Ban...

    Movie plot

    Xiao Liu, known as the "tram idiot", lives with his mother, A Guo, who runs a tempura shop. Xiaoliu's house is full of pictures of trams drawn by him. Every day, he drives the tram out of his imagination, makes a "ding ding ding ding" sound, and circles the street. That's like his job. Led by Xiao Liu, the residents on this street are all strange people. For example, the Masuda couple and the Kawaguchi couple who work part-time every...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film is Wind Man's first independent production, and is his first color film   .
    The film was made in just 28 days   .
    Shot in a Tokyo junkyard, the film set up locations and houses in the rubble, and airbrushed sheds and roads in deep pinks, golds and greens. During filming, the ground became colorful because of the chemical reaction between the paint and the rubbish in the dump, which made Wind Man happy...
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    Evaluation action

    In this film, Wind Man's use of color is extremely extravagant and bold, and he renders a dilapidated and dirty squatter house like a dream. Originally, the original novel was a realistic work with a strong realism style, but under the design of Wind Man, the film is as publicized as an impressionist painting. Every scene in the film, every actor's clothing, every character's makeup, and every lighting effect can be seen as part of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Suicidal Old Man: [Haltingly, opening up to Mr. Tanba, who patiently listens to him] I'm fed up with everything now... Life is nothing but pain to me. When I get up in the morning and get ready for breakfast... thinking I have to do everything all over again, I just lose my strength. Food doesn't taste good. I lose my appetite.

      Suicidal Old Man: [continues, as Mr. Tanba listens silently] When I go to the public bath, I'm disgusted to see myself in the mirror. Naked, I look really disgusting and filthy. I can't stand myself. At this point... the only thing I want... is to die quickly. I want to disappear from this world.

      Mr. Tanba: [Mr. Tanba gets up and starts rummaging for some items, and prepares a powder which he gives to the man] This powder is used in engraving. It's a very strong poison, not sold to the public. You'll die without pain an hour after taking it. If you really want to die, take it.

      Suicidal Old Man: [the suicidal man eagerly takes the powder and pours all of it in his mouth, then drinks it down with water] Thank you. It's very kind of you. Goodbye.

    • Yukichi Shima: [speaking to his three guests] Let me ask you a question. Have you ever found a way to get rice from a rice store? I don't mean borrowing, I mean taking it right in front of their eyes.

      Yukichi Shima: [continues] You take a big pot and get it all wet on the inside, and have it filled at the rice store. Try to get it on credit and they'll refuse. You throw the rice out, but the pot is wet. So some rice remains stuck to the sides. If you repeat that three times, you'll get enough for a meal. Eh? Great, isn't it?

    • Taro Sawagami: Father...

      Ryotaro Sawagami: What is it?

      Taro Sawagami: Is it true we aren't your children?

      Ryotaro Sawagami: Think for yourself. Do you think you aren't? I know every one of you is mine. So, you're all dear to me. But if you don't love me, and if you don't think I'm your dad, then I am not. Right?

      Taro Sawagami: But people have always said that we aren't your kids, that our fathers are all different. And they didn't just tell me, but also Jiro, Hanako and Shiro.

      Ryotaro Sawagami: People say what they want. You can't stop them from saying all kinds of things. Right? No one can really tell whose child is whose. If you believe someone is your dad, then you are his son. If someone says you aren't my kids, then you ask him about his own father. I'll bet he can't answer. After all, it's either you believe me, or you believe the others.

      Ryotaro Sawagami: [looks at the kids] Who do you believe?

      Taro Sawagami: You, father.

      [all the kids raise their hands and shout in agreement]

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