another demonstration of kurosawa genius and his first colour film be a darkly surreal look into the tragic life of tokyo slum dweller and essentially a series of interweave vignette depict several group of people eking out a perilous existence in a harsh and uncaring post war shanty town . swing from comedy to tragedy and back and this film show how people deal with the bad kind of life each in their own way and mostly retreat into themselves and live in the fantasy world of their own head and withdraw emotionally from those around them or drown themselves in alcohol . mix kitchen sink realism with kabuki esque theatrics and kurosawa toy expertly with the emotion of his audience and draw tear and laughter with equal deftness . a wonderful and drain experience .