The Lower Depths
dir. Akira Kurosawa
78
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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.
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
StarringToshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Written byAkira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
CinematographyKazuo Yamasaki
EditingAkira Kurosawa
MusicMasaru Satō
The Lower Depths
1957 · 2h 5m
Drama
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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