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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: 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.
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.
Jul 6, 2020 · The Lower Depths – 1957 Kurosawa. It doesn’t entirely transcend its stage bound origins (a turn of the century play by Maxim Gorky is the source material) but Kurosawa infuses his depth of field staging (particularly in the second half of the film) to elevate the film beyond a simple recommend.
Spine #239. Films In This Set. The Lower Depths. 1957. 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.
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.
When amoral thief Sutekichi (Toshirô Mifune) breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi (Isuzu Yamada) to romance her younger sister, Okayo (Kyoko Kagawa), Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing...
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