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The Lower Depths (どん底, Donzoko) is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, the screenplay by Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa, based on the 1902 play The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky. The setting was changed for the film from late 19th-century Russia to Edo period Japan.
The Lower Depths (Russian: На дне, romanized: Na dne, literally: At the bottom) is a play by Russian dramatist Maxim Gorky written in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski.
- Maxim Gorky
- 1973
The Lower Depths: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura. In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
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- Drama
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1957-10-01
Aug 5, 2020 · The Lower Depths has been variously viewed as one of the groundbreaking realistic and naturalistic works of modern literature that gave voice and stature to the marginalized and invisible, as a visionary and spiritual affirmation and negation of human and social perfectibility, and as effective propaganda for multiple (and contradictory) philoso...
Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its bleak outlook.
- Sutekichi (The Thief)
The Lower Depths. 1936. Special Features. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: New high-definition digital transfers of both films, with restored image and sound. Audio commentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie ( A Hundred Years of Japanese Film)
The Lower Depths. Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1957 • Japan. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa. Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema’s greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky’s classic proletariat play “The Lower Depths” in their own ways for their own times.
