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Title: Affecting, Accesible Story
Review: "Dodes Ka-Den" comes from the child's punning imitation of the sound of an electric train clacking over the tracks. Despite the title, the movie is not for kids, mostly due to the difficultly of reading subtitles, but also because the movie deals with death, extreme poverty, and prejudice.Those who don't enjoy the effort required to decipher Kurosawa period pieces might enjoy this sad, simple story set in the present. The movie is a series of interelated stories about of a group of people who live at the edge of a dump.Although my life is nothing like theirs, I found the story powerfully affecting. I highly recommend it. It's been five years since I've seen it, but I still remember it well enought to review on the occasion of Kurosawa's death. END
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