Yes, very. More sad than 96% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Dodes'ka-den scary?

Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Dodes'ka-den violent?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Dodes'ka-den easy watching?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Dodes'ka-den end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Dodes'ka-den

Name: Dodes'ka-den
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yūko Kusunoki

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Produced by Yonki-no-Kai Productions, TOHO

1970140 min7.1 / 10

A compassionate, fragmented portrait of Tokyo's poorest residents, where fantasy and small acts of kindness offer fragile resistance to grinding poverty and despair.

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Clusters

Mental Illness Caregiving The Bittersweet Cost of Living Coping With Grief Faith and Doubt Stories Outcasts and Misfits

Genres

Drama

Keywords

Based On Novel Or Book Slum Despair Poverty Multiple Storylines Garbage Dump Dwellers

Questions people ask

Is Dodes'ka-den sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.
Is Dodes'ka-den scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.
Is Dodes'ka-den violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is Dodes'ka-den easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Does Dodes'ka-den end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.