The Lower Depths
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by TOHO
A philosophical drama of class struggle and human degradation set in a squalid boardinghouse, where desire and desperation collide in a tragic love triangle.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
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