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The Lower Depths (1957)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Drama · 2h 05m
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Sutekichi the Thief
Isuzu Yamada
Osugi the Landlady
Kyōko Kagawa
Okayo, Osugi's Sister
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Rokubei, Osugi's Husband
Minoru Chiaki
Former Samurai
Kamatari Fujiwara
The Actor
Akemi Negishi
Osen the Prostitute
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Otaki the Candy-Seller
Kōji Mitsui
Yoshisaburo the Gambler
Eijirō Tōno
Tomekichi the Tinker
Haruo Tanaka
Tatsu
Eiko Miyoshi
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Yamasaki
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Akira Kurosawa, Sōjirō Motoki
Details
- Original title
- どん底
- Release date
- 1957-10-01
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO