The Lower Depths

Name: The Lower Depths
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-10-01
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Minoru Chiaki

どん底 (1957)

Timing: 2:5 (125 min)

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Release date

1957-10-01

Country

Japan

Production

TOHO

Genre

Drama

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Director

Akira Kurosawa

Actors

Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Akemi Negishi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Kōji Mitsui, Eijirō Tōno
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Producer

Tomoyuki Tanaka, Sōjirō Motoki, Akira Kurosawa

Operator

Kazuo Yamasaki

Composer

Masaru Satō

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Editing

Akira Kurosawa
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Short description

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.

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