The Lower Depths (1957)
(Donzoko)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Toshiro Mifune, Bokuzen Hidari
Synopsis:
Each of the occupants of a dosshouse has retained an illusion which enables them to carry on living, without, for all that, protecting them from each other. When a mysterious old timer intrudes briefly upon the status quo he provides moral encouragement and the will to live, but death and violence lurk just around the corner.
Review:
A film that belongs with The Idiot and Dodeskaden in the director's oeuvre, preoccupied as it is with the underdogs of society. It is put across with great verve by the cast, with plenty of characteristic leaping about and screaming, and Kurosawa maintains a stagey claustrophobia throughout.
(Donzoko)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Toshiro Mifune, Bokuzen Hidari
Synopsis:
Each of the occupants of a dosshouse has retained an illusion which enables them to carry on living, without, for all that, protecting them from each other. When a mysterious old timer intrudes briefly upon the status quo he provides moral encouragement and the will to live, but death and violence lurk just around the corner.
Review:
A film that belongs with The Idiot and Dodeskaden in the director's oeuvre, preoccupied as it is with the underdogs of society. It is put across with great verve by the cast, with plenty of characteristic leaping about and screaming, and Kurosawa maintains a stagey claustrophobia throughout.
(Donzoko)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 124m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Toshiro Mifune, Bokuzen Hidari
Synopsis:
Each of the occupants of a dosshouse has retained an illusion which enables them to carry on living, without, for all that, protecting them from each other. When a mysterious old timer intrudes briefly upon the status quo he provides moral encouragement and the will to live, but death and violence lurk just around the corner.
Review:
A film that belongs with The Idiot and Dodeskaden in the director's oeuvre, preoccupied as it is with the underdogs of society. It is put across with great verve by the cast, with plenty of characteristic leaping about and screaming, and Kurosawa maintains a stagey claustrophobia throughout.