Dodes'ka-den
Directors
Akira Kurosawa
Actors
- Yoshitaka Zushi
- Kin Sugai
- Toshiyuki Tonomura
Summary
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
More about this movie
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.