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The Crowded Streetcar (1957) Kon Ichikawa; Hiroshi Kawaguchi
The Crowded Streetcar (1957) Kon Ichikawa; Hiroshi Kawaguchi
 
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This is a region-free DVD+R without case or artwork.

In Japanese with English subtitles. Also known as Manin Densha and A Full-Up Train.

The Crowded Streetcar follows a young "salary man" as he struggles to adjust to Japan's hectic postwar economy while his personal life becomes more and more chaotic. After graduating from college among a faceless throng of fellow students, he begins working in a brewery, living in a bland workers' dormitory and toiling away at a monotonous desk job. But soon a succession of complications involving his parents (who are accusing one another of being insane) and his college girlfriend knock begin to complicate his life. Like Pu-San and A Billionaire, The Crowded Streetcar satirizes Japan's postwar economic miracle with merciless, acidic satire, and the three films have come to be known as Kon Ichikawa's "black comedy trilogy".

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5 of 5 A very entertaining movie February 20, 2025
Reviewer: Ryan Layne Whitney from Seattle, WA United States  
This satire from 1957 about the social situation in Japan, and the plight of the "salary man," is very well worth seeing.  The comedy and the acting are of high quality, and the satire biting.  Hiroshi Kawaguchi is excellent in his role.

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