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Dodes'ka-den-A Rare Original Vintage Italian Movie Poster of Akira Kurosawa's colorful collage of residents in a Tokyo slum with Kin Sugai, Hisashi Igawa, & Jitsuko Yoshimura. One of the most personal works of his entire career, Dodes'ka-den is a vibrant, colorful, & lyrical pastiche of some of the most unusual & compelling characters to ever inhabit a "Kurosawa Film". Kurosawa released this movie to jump-start an independent production partnership between four of the most successful Japanese film directors of his era (the other three being Masaki Kobayashi, Kon Ichikawa, & Keisuke Kinoshita). The partnership was counting on the popular director to make a blockbuster to help finance films for each of the others but unfortunately, this sensitive, personal & abstract work never found its audience...on its first release. There's charm, pathos, humor, & sadness in this absorbing work which seems to take place in an almost post-apocalyptic setting of an unknown time & place. There's Rokkuchan, a challenged man-child who plays conductor on an imaginary train making the noises of locomotion...the 'clickety-clack' of the title. Then there's the Father & son scrounging for restaurant scraps waxing poetic with elaborate descriptions of a future dream house. Watch the sensitive sake salesman who delivers on a bike & has a sweet yet mysterious connection with a shy & quiet woman. Rounding out the community is a group of ladies who squat around the public spigot filling their vessels & gossiping about everyone & no one in particular. Kurosawa allows the actors room to improvise even as his camera movement remains deeply structured veering from wide compositions & claustrophobic shots to painterly visions of faces evoking the essence of a silent film. Dodes'ka-den is his first color film & lush primaries light up every frame sometimes spilling over the seams like one of his now-famous oil paintings. Keep an eye out for the director himself in a cameo as a painter in the street. ACTORS: Kin Sugai, Hisashi Igawa, & Jitsuko Yoshimura DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa WRITER(S): Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, & Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay), Shûgorô Yamamoto (novel) CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yasumichi Fukuzawa & Takao Saitô SCORE: Tôru Takemitsu THIS IS A VINTAGE, ORIGINAL POSTER PRODUCED & DISTRIBUTED BY THE MOVIE STUDIO. THIS IS NOT A "REPRINT" OR A "REPRODUCTION". POSTER SPECIFICS: FILM YEAR: 1970 (Japan) FILM/POSTER YEAR: 1978 (Italian 1st Release) COUNTRY: Italy POSTER TYPE: Italian "Photobusta" style poster SIZE: 18.75" x 26.5" [48 x 67 cm] Italian "Photobusta" style poster MAILED: Rolled (Originally Folded, VCA has stored this poster FLAT & will ship it Rolled) CONDITION: This Poster is in "FINE" condition, remarkable as it was printed over (45) years ago. The poster is vibrant & colorful highlighting the gorgeous artwork by the poster designer. Please note minor edgewear & some creasing on Vintage Photobustas of this era. This beautiful yellow "landscape" poster will
