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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Written by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Starring | Yoshitaka Zushi Kin Sugai Toshiyuki Tonomura |
| Release date(s) | October 31, 1970 |
| Running time | 140 min |
| Language | Japanese |
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Dodesukaden (どですかでん) is a film by Akira Kurosawa set in a Japanese rubbish dump in the period immediately following World War II. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. For other uses see Water treatment and Land reclamation. A landfill, also known as a dump (and historically as World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The film focuses lives of a variety of characters who happen to live in a dump. The first one introduced is a mentally retarded boy who pretends to be a tram conductor by following a set route through the dump in an imaginary tram that he mimes. A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railborne vehicle, of lighter weight and construction than a Train The film title refers to a traditional Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound made by a tram or train while in motion ( "Do-desu-ka-den do-desu-ka-den do-desu-ka-den"). Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα is a Word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing The sound is made by the boy as he makes his daily faux-tram route through the dump. Dodesukaden was filmed on an actual dump in Tokyo.
This was Kurosawa's first color film, and he took full of advantage of the new color medium. After the success of Red Beard, it took Kurosawa five years before this film appeared. is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa about the relationship between a village doctor and his new trainee None of the actors from Kurosawa's stock company of the 1950's and 60's were in this film and most of the cast were relatively unknown. Dodesukaden was unlike anything that Kurosawa had made before, and was critically panned in Japan despite earning an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Film in 1970. Dodesukaden was Kurosawa's first financial failure and came during the worst possible time in his life. When Dodesukaden was filmed Kurosawa had been going through a lull in his career and personal life - he was finding it increasingly difficult to obtain finance despite the critical and financial success of his previous films, and rumors about his deteriorating mental health only made matters worse. Dodesukaden was only made by the cooperation and co-producing of three other Japanese directors, Kinoshita, Kobayashi, and Ichikawa.
The critical failure of Dodesukaden sent Kurosawa into a deep depression, and in 1971 he attempted suicide. In the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry, the terms depression or depressed refer to both expected and pathologically chronic or severe Despite having slashed himself over 30 times with a razor, Kurosawa survived his suicide; however, he would not return to filmmaking for five years, releasing Dersu Uzala in 1975. Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала デルス·ウザーラ alternate U This won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the only Academy Award that Kurosawa received for a single film.
Remake
Dodesukaden was loosely remade as Street Trash in 1987 by screenwriter/producer Roy Frumkes and director James Muro, according to Frumkes. Street Trash is a 1987 horror - Comedy film directed by J Michael Muro (credited as Jim Muro Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Roy Frumkes is an independent filmmaker Frumkes directed the 1985 documentary Document of the Dead, a film detailing the production of Dawn of the Dead A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. [1]
External links
- Dodesukaden (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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