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Dodes 'Ka-Den (Dodes'ka-den)

Dodes 'Ka-Den - Dodesukaden (Dodes'ka-den)

1970

Akira Kurosawa

Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Kazuo Katô, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange

7.1

1,317

Drama Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support their parents by scrounging or by tedious and ill-paying endeavours; schemers who plot or dream of escaping the shackles of poverty.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It's a film with a rather strange surface (...) But underneath there's still the love and regard for characters... (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"'Dodes'ka-den' may be fanciful in its depiction of poverty, but this comes from a desire to humanize people marginalized by society."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"'Dodes'ka-den's' forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty."	POS

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