On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

• Yonki-no-Kai Productions
• TOHO
• Yoshitaka Zushi
• Kin Sugai
• Toshiyuki Tonomura
• Shinsuke Minami
• Yūko Kusunoki
• Junzaburō Ban
• Kiyoko Tange
• Michio Hino