Everything else feels so hollow and occasionally phony, that it´s hard not to view the film as one of Kurosawa´s weakest efforts.
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07/29/09
Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:2
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's film is a sprawling social portrait of life in a Tokyo shantytown. A colorful array of down and out characters populate a cluttered dumpsite, where every day becomes a another... [More]
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more sober and cynical than sentimental and cathartic, a pre-cursor to the bleak, destitute cosmos of Harmony Korine and Larry Clarke
04/13/09
even if the film does not stand up with Kurosawa's better known works, it is still an intriguing, if only semi-successful, experiment that suggests the great director's willingess to expand his palette
03/30/09
Dodes'ka-den's forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty.
03/17/09
The execution is rather crude.
07/12/06
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