What is Double Feature: Dodes'ka-den / I Live in Fear about?

DODES’KA-DEN, 1970, Janus Films, 140 min. Kurosawa’s fascination with slum-life (as seen in THE LOWER DEPTHS) reemerges here in a swirling episodic portrait of various individuals, many of them children, living in destitution in a garbage dump in Tokyo. In Japanese with English subtitles. I LIVE IN FEAR (IKIMONO NO KIROKU), 1955, Janus Films, 103 min. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. An aging foundry owner becomes so obsessed with the fear of nuclear extermination and the wish to flee to South America that his family has him deemed legally incompetent. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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What is Double Feature: Dodes'ka-den / I Live in Fear about?: DODES’KA-DEN, 1970, Janus Films, 140 min. Kurosawa’s fascination with slum-life (as seen in THE LOWER DEPTHS) reemerges here in a swirling episodic portrait of various individuals, many of them children, living in destitution in a garbage dump in Tokyo. In Japanese with English subtitles.
I LIVE IN FEAR (IKIMONO NO KIROKU), 1955, Janus Films, 103 min. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. An aging foundry owner becomes so obsessed with the fear of nuclear extermination and the wish to flee to South America that his family has him deemed legally incompetent. In Japanese with English subtitles.