The Lower Depths 1957 123movies

Watch: どん底 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 5,506
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 97 Popularity: 7.079 | TMDB

Reviews:

not a great film from Kurosawa, but it is entertaining, and compassionate
The one problem with The Lower Depths, at least on a first impression basis (and I can’t say for sure if its with Maxim Gorky’s original text, as I haven’t read that or see Jean Renoir’s 1936 film of it) is that not a whole lot goes on with the story. Matter of fact, Akira Kurosawa’s films, which always have a strong story that sometimes becomes very complex, isn’t as such with this. It’s sort of a play about the day-to-day inner-working (often nothingness) of the lives of beggars, thieves, downtrodden, and ill in a slum.

This doesn’t mean that Kurosawa doesn’t have room for his usual extraordinary camera angles, or the intensity of a couple of fights in the film, or that he can’t bring out the entertainment value in his actors (it’s not an entirely dour film, bits of human comedy are laced in). It’s just that it seems to not hold the attention and total awe of a viewer in the way that his greater works do. Mifune is as reliable a leading man as can be, and I liked how Kurosawa set-up the supporting character before he got to his character, Shizuki. But once the characters are set-up, it’s a roll-on for little anecdotes of their relationships, thoughts, compassion, laughs, craziness, sadness, contemplation, and so forth.

All this makes for some interesting parts, and it’s never a film to turn off mid-way – there are a few memorable scenes and dialog bits, like a little card game where the players have a little chant)there are always moments in a Kurosawa film that mark as superb cinema). Indeed, if one didn’t know it was a film by Kurosawa it might be even more impressive on some level. Maybe, and this isn’t to put down the significance of the play, it’s a little too ‘talky’ for Kurosawa’s own good. Worth the watch if you’re already steeped in Kurosawa land, and if you like the play already it’s surely worth it for the comparison factor.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 17 min (137 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Maxim Gorky, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Actors Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Country N/A
Awards 6 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,425 m (Finland), 3,744 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm