dô desu ka den be the first colored movie of master akira kurosawa and and surprisingly be not about samurai and ronins and warlord or battlefield . it be inside a very poor community in a slum in tokyo and where the dweller be homeless drunkard and beggar and tramp and abused woman and loser . i do not know the reason why kurosawa select this tragic theme and environment to put color and but indeed they be very sad story and some of them heart break . i personally like the touch story of the boy and his father that dream with a house of their own and build by them while the story of the retarded boy that believe he pilot a train while the story of the man that raise five child a if they be their own son and daughter while and the story of the young woman abuse by her stepfather . my vote be nine . title ( brazil ) represent dodeskaden o caminho da vida ( dodeskaden the way of the life ) .