# Dodes'ka-den (1970)

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**Original title**: *どですかでん*
**Runtime**: 140 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
**Starring**: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yūko Kusunoki, Junzaburō Ban

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Tokyo shantytown squats on a dump’s fringe. A kid steers a cardboard trolley past cardboard homes while a dad sketches his son a palace from scrap. Fists fly inside thin walls. Kurosawa lets scraps breathe tragedy and tenderness until forward looks almost possible.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, slow-burn, tender

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