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.

The Lower Depths
1957
7.1/10

Poor Cow
1967
6.4/10

Sounder
1972
7.5/10

All Together Now
2020
6.7/10

The Truth About Emanuel
2013
6.0/10

Wonderstruck
2017
6.1/10

If Cats Disappeared from the World
2016
6.8/10

Maborosi
1995
7.5/10

Knock on Any Door
1949
6.2/10

Here
2024
6.5/10

The Power of One
1992
7.5/10

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
7.5/10

Wild Boys of the Road
1933
6.8/10

The Dead
1987
6.9/10

The Lost Weekend
1945
7.6/10

Same Kind of Different as Me
2017
6.8/10

Oliver Twist
1997
6.2/10

The Secret Garden
1993
7.4/10

Heaven Is for Real
2014
6.8/10

That Cold Day in the Park
1969
6.6/10
White Skin
2004
5/10