the title be onomatopoeic and the sound of a streetcar clack on the rail . it be metaphoric for all that the people who live in the dump can not have . the misery of those people be illustrate by the passing streetcar which represent the relatively unobtainable rich life of the middle class . the pathos of the little boy and his beloved yet sadly insane father be most touching . this be kurosawa first film in colour and he use beautifully shock hue and colour see only in dream . the movie be surreal and surpass in beauty . the compassion for humanity be the underling force and but a always and kurosawa be focus on capture the beauty of the film . it be a masterwork by a genius of cinema .