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Dodes'ka-Den

Zushi, Yoshitaka (Actor), Ban, Janzabaro (Actor), Kurosawa, Akira (Director) Format: DVD

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Actors: Yoshitaka Zushi, Janzabaro Ban, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Format: Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Criterion Collections
DVD Release Date: 17 Mar 2009
Run Time: 144 minutes
Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item
ASIN: B001O549G6
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,950 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #23428 in Movies (Movies & TV)

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Life goes on for the people in a shantytown on the edge of Tokyo. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. The title means "clickety-clack.]Life goes on for people in shantytown on edge of Tokyo.]0]]Akira Kurosawa]]]Yoshitaka Zushi]Janzabaro Ban]Jitsuko Yoshimura]]]]]]]

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lhamo55

Unforgettable and Underappreciated

5 September 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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After first seeing this on a long lost VHS cassette many years ago, this memory of this film has never faded. Then Hulu acquired the rights to stream the Criterion Collection and I must have watched five or six times, luxuriating in previously missed details. then after a few fabulous years of working my way through the Collection, it disappeared from Hulu though in recent years Criterion has introduced a dedicated (and pricey) streaming channel that can be previewed for 14 days. Shame Amazon didn't acquire the rights to the catalog and offer it as a premium channel. Anyway others here have reviewed this under-appreciated cultural snapshot, after all these years I only yesterday discovered that a friend had also seen it and likewise never forgotten it.

Michael L. Sweet

Existentialism at its best

24 December 2011 - Published on Amazon.com

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Wow! I wasn't expecting a movie like this from Kurosawa. Really, really different. My wife and I were watching this pretty late in the evening yet we didn't fall asleep because this movie held our interest. It is somewhat of a surrealistic movie. The squalor that these people live in can be funny and desperate. Make sure you look at the extras and the interviews from some of the cast members & Kurosawa. It helps explain alot about the film. It also shows how Kurosawa had to paint backgrounds and also shows his artistic skills with the paintbrush - very interesting. People has criticized this film about it being disjointed but I didn't feel that. Each story is a story-in-itself with a brief interconnection to the rest of the cast. The actors are great. It can be a slow movie for those who expect alot of action but just give it time - it will develop. I saw this movie a couple of days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I really haven't experienced this before. It is a beautiful film. To me, it is like viewing a Van Gogh painting (which I have only experienced in a book, unfortunately) and thinking about its impact later. This movie has everything: comedy, tragedy, love. Real complex situations. I have seen alot of Akira's movies and I put this in my top three movies. Here's the thing, though, if you can't understand it or get bored don't give up. Come back to it another time. It might have more impact. It took me a few times to sit through 2001 Space Odyssey but once I did I loved it. I watched it at night with nobody around - no interruptions. It was amazing. You might have to do that with this one. It probably isn't wise to leave the room or talk with people because you will miss all the nuances on the characters. By the way, Dodes'Ka-Den is an onomatopoeia. A word that when pronounced makes the sound of the thing. An example may be, choo-choo for a train. Apparantly Dodes'Ka-Den is the Japanese pronunciation of the sound a trolly makes. Strangely enough, though, I asked my daughter-in-law (who is from Japan) and she couldn't figure it out what it meant. But she is young so maybe she never heard a trolley. I was walking around the room saying, "Dodes'Ka-Den, Dodes'Ka-Den" like the kid in the movie. I was moving my arms and chugging across the room. She looked at me like I was from outer-space. I checked this out from the library but now I have put it on my Amazon Wishlist. This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD.
UPDATE: I finally bought this DVD when it was decreased to $14.99 and it got here a day earlier than promised from Amazon. You can't beat that price for a Criterion Collection. Can't wait to see it for the 5th time!

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Joseph C. Martinak

A movie that will make you think.

4 February 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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Started out slow. Wasn't sure. Then as you get to see the other characters, their lives, living on a garbage dump...what is the lesson? "All you have to do is survive?" "Be kind to your fellow man?" I watched this with others and we talked about it for quite sometime after the movie. Get it if you are a fan of Japanese Movies and Kurosawa. Let it work on you, give it a chance. A great snapshot of postwar Japan.

Bryan A. Pfleeger

Diamond in the Rough

30 June 2007 - Published on Amazon.com

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Dodes ka den is the sound that an imaginary trolly car makes as it is driven up hill in the Japanese slum in Akira Kurasawa'a film of the same name. This film, a failure at the time of release, is a diamond in the rough for its ever humanistic director. The film was the master's first color film and he paints with an extemely colorful palette.

The interconnected stories of the impoverished denizens of an urban slum in Tokyo may be pessimistic but they are fascinating all the same. Kurasawa tried a method of filmaking that would become popular some 25 years later with such films as Crash, Babel and Short Cuts. Misunderstood when it was released (the film took five years to get to the Unite States)and still seldom seen the film needs to be sought out by those who are interested in Kurasawa's work.

Available only on VHS this film would truly sparkle if given new life as a DVD release. The picture is letterboxed with good subtitles. Well worth seeing if you have the oppurtunity. Seek it out.

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Boston Sean

Near Masterpiece

5 January 2013 - Published on Amazon.com

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It mystifies me why this film receives so little attention among Kurosawa's oeuvre...it may not be his best gendaigeki, but it's far from his worst. I was struck by the numerous parallels to Itami's Tanpopo, to the point of being almost certain Itami saw this film as part of the inspiration for his vignette approach; if in Tanpopo the unifying element is food, here it's a location (the dump) and the condition (grinding poverty, despair) that location implies. It's just like Tanpopo, except of course for the fact that poverty and misery, on balance, aren't very funny...but then, Kurosawa et al never said it was a comedy, did they?

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