Dodes’ka-den 1970 123movies

Watch: どですかでん 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, an intellectually disabled 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..
Plot: This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 7,039
	73% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 99 Popularity: 7.013 | TMDB

Reviews:

beautiful/tragic character study
Dodes’ka-den is the monotonous sound of the trolley clickety-clacking down the rails; the mindless drone of a brain damaged or retarded “trolley freak” acting out his repetitive fantasy in the Tokyo city dump where he lives with his long-suffering mother; and, a cinematic masterpiece from Kurosawa.

The film doesn’t have a traditional plot, it’s a snapshot of the lives of a strange ensemble of characters who live in the dump. (In much of the third world today, municipal dumps are inhabited by poor people who scavenge trash to make their living. It wasn’t that long ago that the same was true in the US, by the way. In the late 1800’s the NYC dump was home to a population of desperate scavengers too.) Kurosawa does his usual brilliant job of creating a full spectrum of characters, except that here most of them are damaged and dysfunctional. Kurosawa is loved for his portrayals of honor, courage, and heroism. Some find it more difficult to appreciate his unblinking examination of loss, failure, wickedness and despair. This film lays bare some of the dark corners of the human heart, and presents the full spectrum of human reality, warts and all – but with an emphasis on the warts.

It’s not a dark film nonetheless. These tragic blighted lives are shown with zen clarity and humor. We see a cross-section of human psychology, both good and bad, and the genius of Kurosawa makes it clear that each of us share the feelings and foibles of these Tokyo dregs.

The horrors of hand to mouth living…
Within the past week or so, we’ve seen a video (which went “viral,” as they say) showing cops in Los Angeles snatching blankets off of homeless people on a frigid winter night. We’re told that there are currently 120, 000 homeless people living (if you can call it “living”) on the streets of L.A. (There are approximately two Million shipping containers scattered across America, discarded by shipping companies once their cargo has been offloaded. I’ve worked in the belly of cargo ships, myself, and I’ve seen these containers up close. They would make GREAT homes for people who can’t afford housing. They’re cheap- between $500 and $2,000- and could be outfitted at little cost, then rented on a case by case basis to people who need shelter.) In DODESKADEN, Kurosawa gives us a collection of Free Poor struggling simply to survive to see the coming day. One of my favorites is the old man who is “robbed.” Wise enough to understand what’s going on, he GIVES the thief what he’s come to steal and then promises to save up what he can for the thief’s next visit; the thief leaves bowing thankfully. Another character was one I could relate to: the Beggar’s son. Been there, done that, although I didn’t end up the way the kid does. If you’re one of those who tire of the endless s— being cranked out by the Military Entertainment Complex and want to find something that deals with HUMAN characters caught up in Real Life Circumstances, check out DODESKADEN.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 20 min (140 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Actors Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
Country Japan
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Film Length 3,824 m (10 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm