Dodesuka-den

どですかでん /

DVD - 2009

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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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Fantasy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection ©2009.
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Eiga, Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝映画株式会社, Yonki-no-Kai, Inc., 四騎の会
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Eiga, Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝映画株式会社 (production company), Yonki-no-Kai, Inc., 四騎の会
Other Authors
Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998 (film director), Yōichi Matsue (film producer), Keisuke Kinoshita, 1912-1998 (actor), Kon Ichikawa, 1915-2008 (-), Masaki Kobayashi, 1916-1996, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, 1926-2018, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, 1930-1982, Yūko Kusunoki, 1933-, Shūgorō Yamamoto, 1903-1967
Item Description
Based on the novel by Yamamoto Shūgorō.
Originally produced as a Japanese motion picture in 1970.
Special features: Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create [featurette] (36 min.); Trailer (4 min.).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; fullscreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1; new restored high-definition digital transfer; new and improved English subtitle translation.
Audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Awards
1971 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
Production Credits
Cinematography, Takao Saitō, Yasumichi Fukuzawa ; art direction by Yōshirō Muraki, Shinobu Muraki ; music by Tōru Takemitsu.
ISBN
9781604651270
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