Donzoko (The Lower Depths) (1957)
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Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own country's Edo Period--which, like Gorky's 19th-century setting, was an era of great cultural advances, offset by the miseries of those who weren't in the aristocracy. Kurosawa's film concentrates on Toshiro Mifune, playing a crooked gambler who falls in love with the sister (Kyoko Kagawa) of his cruel landlady (Isuzu Yamada). Herself carrying a torch for Mifune, the
Jan 1, 1957 Wide
Aug 10, 2004
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Cast
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Toshiro Mifune
Sutekichi the thief -
Isuzu Yamada
Osugi the Landlady -
Kyoko Kagawa
Okayo her sister -
Bokuzen Hidari
Kahei the priest -
Ganjiro Nakamura
Rokubei her husband -
Minoru Chiaki
The Ex-Samurai -
Kamatari Fujiwara
The Actor -
Yu Fujiki
Unokichi -
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Otaki -
Koji Mitsui
Yoshisaburo the gambler -
Eiko Miyoshi
Asa his wife -
Akemi Negishi
Osen the prostitute -
Haruo Tanaka
Tatsu -
Eijirô Tono
Tomekichi the tinker -
Kichijiro Ueda
Police Agent -
Atsushi Watanabe
Kuma
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This is the purpose of the picture, to make one suffer and sympathize with them. Kurosawa's darkly imagistic technique achieves this depressing aim.
Top CriticBleak comedy about a virtual flophouse in Edo-period Japan based on Gorky's play. Top-flight ensemble performance.
For the first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie, we make only limited excursions out of the tenement, and it begins to feel as though we've moved in ourselves. Kurosawa may have intended this, but it doesn't make for very satisfying viewing.
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Foreign Titles
- The Lower Depths (Donzoko) (DE)
- The Lower Depths (Donzoko) (UK)
