Hideko Okiyama

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.

In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis. Mikuni is the nominal villain of the film, but he is a devoted husband and father as well. He tries to kill Musashi only to avenge the death of his brother-in-law. While Baiken (who wields a chain and sickle against Musashi's sword) is a very human character and the emotions that Mikuni displays in his performance are quite believable and engaging

Por momentos trágico y trascendente, la película de Akira Kurosawa sigue la vida cotidiana de un grupo de personas que apenas se arrastran en un barrio pobre en las afueras de Tokio. Sin embargo, por desesperadas que sean sus circunstancias, cada uno de ellos, el padre y el hijo sin hogar imaginando la casa de sus sueños; la joven maltratada por su tío; el niño que se imagina a sí mismo como conductor de un tranvía, encuentra razones para continuar. El inolvidable Dodes’ka-den se hizo en un momento tumultuoso en la vida de Kurosawa. Y todas sus esperanzas, miedos y pasión artística se muestran fervientemente en esta, su primera película en color gloriosamente filmada.

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

Un ingeniero de Tokyo llamado Kariya llega a una primitiva isla tropical para excavar un pozo que suministre agua a los campos de azúcar. En la isla, cuenta con la asistencia de Kametaro, un miembro de la familia Futori. Nekichi Futori está encadenado en un hoyo que debe ser excavado porque cree que debe apaciguar a los dioses antes de que acaben con la protección de la isla. Nekichi está enamorado de su hermana Uma, sacerdotisa chamán en el templo sagrado, que contiene el único agua potable cerca del campo de azúcar. Asimismo, ella es la amante de Ryu, el jefe del campo. El patriarca de los Futori intenta que el ingeniero se case con su hija retrasada Toriko. (FILMAFFINITY)