Dodes'ka-den poster

Movie · 1970

Dodes'ka-den

Released 31 October 1970 More from 1970 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Suicidal Old Man
65
Kōji Mitsui
as Foodstand owner
60
Takashi Ebata
as 2nd Man Calling Out
41
Tomoko Naraoka
as Ochô
40
Kunie Tanaka
as Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
37
Akemi Negishi
as Good-Looking Housewife
36
Hisashi Igawa
as Masuo Masuda
33
Jitsuko Yoshimura
as Yoshie Kawaguchi
27
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
38years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Kamatari Fujiwara — oldest on the call sheet
27Jitsuko Yoshimura — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast
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