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The Lower Depths

どん底

1957 2 h 05 min
71%
Audience score147 votes on TMDB

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.

Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Hideo Oguni
Status
Released
Release date
01/10/1957
Original language
Japanese

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