Movie Review: Dodes'ka-den (Essay Sample)

Movie Review: Dodes'ka-den
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Dodes'ka-den is a film that was shot when there was had time in Tokyo in Japan. I t shown the reality of the time in Tokyo in the 1970 when the culture artistic was taking it first steps. The film is directed by Akira Kurosawa a film director who had produced other films earlier. The director in the production of Dodes'ka-den in collaboration with other veteran Japanese directors Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Keisuke Kinoshita, Kurosawa formed the production company called the Club of the Four Knights. The Dede’ska-den was the first production of the company ‘Club of the Four Knights. The film was the first film of colour that Kurosawa produced. This was propelled by changing culture and the Japanese artistic growth. Korosawa by the had been sacked by the 20th Century Fox for the reason that the director was always behind schedule in his production and also for the reason that he was exceeding the company budgets while making productions.
The film Dodes’ka-den was shot in only one month as Kurosawa had to do thing fast so as to convince the world and Japan especially that the 20th Fox century was wrong on their assumption on Kurosawa abilities and capabilities. The film has no central story and is a collection of episodes of life of people living in slums and the daily hardships they go through. The film transverse over the daily activities and slum dwelling in Japanese, daily tribulations and how people survive. The principal of the stories include Rokuchan, this is a simple minded boy living in the slums and drives an imaginary trolley; the other principal characters in the film are Masuo and Hatsu who are two drunkards who drink even during the day and also their wives (Mafakher, et al., 2012).The other principal character in the film is Ryo who is a kind person that is responsible and who is affectionate to his wife and children. Another principal is a beggar and his son who live in hard times without enough to eat; they live in a rested hulk of an automobile. There is also a character by the name Katsuko who is repeatedly abused by his cruel uncle (Mafakher, et al., 2012). Hei is also another principal character in the film who is a very much traumatized man living in solitude. Last of the principal characters is Tanba who is a village elder who is kind and also a wise person.
The fill is a glimpse of what happens daily in the lives of the slum dwellers in Japanese, it is a reflection of the hardships in the 1970. The film is all about nobility and cruelty in the community. The characters in the film are either noble person or either cruel persons. The interaction of the noble and the cruel persons is what life is in the slums. The films through the short stories highlight the concepts of poverty, cruelty, marriages and social interactions. The community is greatly affected by poverty and for most people getting a meal every day is quite a fortune, the beggar and the son have very quiet hard time in getting to feed and they even go days without a meal. (Mafakher, et al., 2012) The community staple food is rice and majority of the people only affords this as fish is expensive for the slum dwellers. Food is prepared traditionally and people eat together. Fish which is also commonly eaten in but most of the slum dwellers do not have the money to buy it. The film has lots of humour in it which is integrated with the storyline and this makes one understand it better.
The film highlights the historical Japanese food-ways, and associates the Japanese society with rice as staple food mainly consumed by the poor families in the society. The other type of food is fish which is consumed mainly the well up families. Fish consumption is high and people get the fish from fishing on the Islands. The main form of food in the film context is traditional food and there is no fast food, most of the foods are most slow. Most people go and fish and very few other forms of ready good are in the society. The fish are salted and kept in dry place as a preservative measures (Mafakher, et al., 2012).
Tamaba is a wise elder in the village and helps the villagers solve their problems with his wise word and also gives the visitor what he wants regardless of whether god or bad. Mashiko Tanimura identifies the desire of suicide by a condition that he has poison then he dies and he enters the domain of request. But spiritual conditions and details enter the domain of desire. Happy times of life, smiles, signs and inspiring details of images and pictures and memories of laughter and objects and issues related to human get to a point that this desire stands in contrast with speech and language and results in a change in desire and is inclined to language and it omits the tension between asking for poison and the desire for life and it changes into the request for antitoxin and desire for life. Lack of wife’s love and children brings him to a new tension between desire and request and Tamba lets him say unsaid. The man, saying what he has never talked about, finds out unconscious of life and its hidden dimensions form speech request domain and he begs for antitoxin.
Offering his properties to the burglar, Tamba creates a symbolic solid society. Tamba doesn’t care about what burglar takes or what he gives him. Everything is worth for giving to the burglar. Even he tells the burglar that he can come back if he needs something. It is not important what he steals but the important t...