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Title:
Dodes'ka-den [DVD video] = [Dodesukaden]
Title (Alt graphic):
どですかでん [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [c2009].
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
ISBN:
9781604651270
Abstract:
Follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. As desperate as their circumstances may seem, each of them, including the homeless father and son who dream of a home; the young woman hiding from the abuse she receives from her uncle; and a young boy who dreams of being a trolley conductor, find reasons to carry on.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
"Kikaku, Yonki no Kai: Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke, Ichikawa Kon, Kobayashi Masaki."
A foreign film (Japan).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.
Based on: Kisetsu no nai machi / Yamamoto Shūgorō.
Special features: "Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create:" a documentary about the making of the film, including interviews with director Akira Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, actor Yoshitaka Zushi, and other memebers of the cast and crew (36 min.); theatrical trailer; booklet includes an essay by film historian, Stephen Prince and a new interview with Nogami.
Performers:
Zushi Yoshitaka, Sugai Kin, Tonomura Toshiyuki, Minami Shinsuke, Kusunoki Yūko.
Technical Details:
Full screen (1.33:1).
Language:
Japanese
jpn eng eng jpn
Additional Language:
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
Not rated.
