Dodeskaden

film by Kurosawa Akira [1970]

Also known as: “Dodesukaden”

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The film Dodeskaden (1970) was directed by Kurosawa Akira, a renowned Japanese filmmaker. This was Kurosawa's first color film and depicted the lives of impoverished people living in slums. Despite recapturing some of the poignancy found in his earlier works, Dodeskaden was not a financial success. Kurosawa is celebrated for his international acclaim and for blending Japanese artistic elements with Western storytelling.1

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…of his films, Dodesukaden (1970; Dodeskaden). His first work in colour, a comedy of poor people living in slums, it recaptured much of the poignancy of his best works but failed financially. The period of personal despondency and artistic silence that followed ended in the mid-1970s when Kurosawa filmed Dersu…
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…of his films, Dodesukaden (1970; Dodeskaden). His first work in colour, a comedy of poor people living in slums, it recaptured much of the poignancy of his best works but failed financially. The period of personal despondency and artistic silence that followed ended in the mid-1970s when Kurosawa filmed Dersu…
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