Dodes'ka-den Comments

  • Dorian 2023-09-04 09:53:25

    Probably the most peculiar movie in Akira Kurosawa's films, but it's also my favorite one so far. Life is like a glass bottle of destiny thrown away by God shattered into pieces of different shapes, and the piece that belongs to everyone reflects the Unusual colors, unique textures and...

  • Jaime 2023-08-17 20:00:38

    The music is great. Akira Kurosawa has big ambitions, but it is not very friendly to ordinary audiences. It wants to be all-encompassing and full of meaning. . Some dream style. However, the type of entertainment is not strong, and it is doomed to fail at the box office. . But it really was a great failure. . The more grandiose and pitiful shadow warriors that appeared later, Chaos must have a direct relationship with the failure of this...

  • Martina 2023-07-25 07:18:02

    2018.12.08 at the Film Archive. I watched it together with "I have no regrets about my youth", and it was very sad after reading it. All are wonderful masterpieces. Strangelove Greg said that this is Akira Kurosawa's first color film. The suffering of the people at the bottom always makes me empathize. The destitute father and his begging son fantasized about building a house and a swimming pool. The colorful and fantastical colors and soundtrack are hilarious. Apart from food, their biggest nee

  • Trever 2023-06-01 03:51:40

    The irony of realism beneath the delusional...

  • Georgianna 2023-05-24 17:16:29

    The part where Yukichi Lame Island brought his colleagues home was wonderful. Akira Kurosawa was unhappy with the actor who played the bad uncle, and the actor asked the assistant director nervously. 渋皮のむけた Female... Negishi Akemi, the old man... Fujiwara Kazuzu. Yukichi Shima..........Ban...

  • Carroll 2023-03-15 14:49:45

    Fantasy architect father and son and undercooked fish, functional twitch office worker and his true love evil wife, red and yellow exchange couple, blue-collar drinking buddies, old doctor and craftsman in the neighborhood of Wanshiwu to take care of all living beings, and a withered husband who can’t choose to forgive. The family relationship of Baijiazi who trusts and maintains, I want to kill you just because I don't want you to forget me, and the air conductor returns to work for another...

  • Sigurd 2023-03-05 07:25:31

    CC Collection No. 465, produced in Japan in 1970, Akira Kurosawa's first color film at the age of 60. Another version of "Lower", there is no "Redbeard" to save everything, only the amusement of the tram idiot. The unreasonable shrew, the perverted uncle, the silent man, the difference between a stone house and a wooden house, the widower who misses his wife and daughter, the thief who surrendered himself, the alcoholic brother who changed his wife. Ukiyo-e of various unfortunate families...

  • Grady 2023-03-04 17:21:23

    A love letter written by Akira Kurosawa to the marginalized people at the bottom, and it is also a warning letter to the world. There are all kinds of sufferings in the world, and goodwill is...

  • Kathryn 2023-03-01 06:56:07

    A very wonderful group portrait, which cancels the boundaries between reality and fantasy, worldly pain and heavenly happiness, and the technique is also very...

  • Vance 2023-01-23 12:36:15

    The poor people's life, the colors are quite bright and colorful, and the contrast between the life in the film is huge. The perspective is fairly peaceful, and I can't read any high-level criticism. I especially like the idiots on the tram and interspersed with footnotes in the film. I especially like the detached old craftsman, the homeless father and son who designed a house in their imagination with their son, and the man who refused to speak after his wife cheated and looked dead. , these...

Extended Reading
  • Chesley 2022-07-05 13:05:49

    Purgatory in the human world, cultivate separately

    The director's first color film has a relatively poor reputation. The main reason is that the color magnifies the dirty feeling of the characters, costumes and scenes, and there is no clear story. It is indeed completely different from the director's previous works. I didn't have high expectations...

  • Daija 2022-07-05 21:45:55

    "Trolley Mania" - the stubbornness and tenderness of a samurai.

    "Trolley Mania" is a magical work, a film that is enough to be selected as a textbook whether it is film art or film history.

    Judging from the timeline, it is a central axis that divides Akira Kurosawa's 50-year directorial career, from "Shisanshiro" in 1943 to "Curling Sunset Love" in 1993.

    In terms...

Dodes'ka-den quotes

  • Suicidal Old Man: [Haltingly, opening up to Mr. Tanba, who patiently listens to him] I'm fed up with everything now... Life is nothing but pain to me. When I get up in the morning and get ready for breakfast... thinking I have to do everything all over again, I just lose my strength. Food doesn't taste good. I lose my appetite.

    Suicidal Old Man: [continues, as Mr. Tanba listens silently] When I go to the public bath, I'm disgusted to see myself in the mirror. Naked, I look really disgusting and filthy. I can't stand myself. At this point... the only thing I want... is to die quickly. I want to disappear from this world.

    Mr. Tanba: [Mr. Tanba gets up and starts rummaging for some items, and prepares a powder which he gives to the man] This powder is used in engraving. It's a very strong poison, not sold to the public. You'll die without pain an hour after taking it. If you really want to die, take it.

    Suicidal Old Man: [the suicidal man eagerly takes the powder and pours all of it in his mouth, then drinks it down with water] Thank you. It's very kind of you. Goodbye.

  • Yukichi Shima: [speaking to his three guests] Let me ask you a question. Have you ever found a way to get rice from a rice store? I don't mean borrowing, I mean taking it right in front of their eyes.

    Yukichi Shima: [continues] You take a big pot and get it all wet on the inside, and have it filled at the rice store. Try to get it on credit and they'll refuse. You throw the rice out, but the pot is wet. So some rice remains stuck to the sides. If you repeat that three times, you'll get enough for a meal. Eh? Great, isn't it?