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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Naturally, since it's based on a Gorky play.

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-->'''Rokubei''': Sutekichi, can I open the door?
-->'''Yoshisaburo''': Might as well open Pandora's box...
* DomesticAbuser: Tomekichi beats, verbally abuses and ignores Asa.

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-->'''Rokubei''': Sutekichi, can I open the door?
-->'''Yoshisaburo''':
door?\\
'''Yoshisaburo''':
Might as well open Pandora's box...
* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse: Tomekichi beats, verbally abuses and ignores Asa.



* [[GossipyHens Gossipy Hen]]: Unokichi is a male version. He's the one who spills the beans that Sutekichi has been having sex with Okayo.

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* [[GossipyHens Gossipy Hen]]: GossipyHens: Unokichi is a male version. He's the one who spills the beans that Sutekichi has been having sex with Okayo.
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* IncomingHam: Unokichi makes his entrance by singing a song loudly and horribly out of tune while dancing wildly and thumping on a drum with a cudgel, and proclaiming his release from jail at the top of his voice.

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* IncomingHam: Unokichi makes his entrance by singing a song loudly and horribly out of tune while dancing wildly and thumping on a drum with a cudgel, drum, and proclaiming his release from jail at the top of his voice.
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* NoodleImplements: Yoshisaburo murdered a "jerk" with a cleaver ten years prior to the events of the film, but he's not keen to tell Kahei why.

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* NoodleImplements: Yoshisaburo murdered a "jerk" with a cleaver ten years prior to the events of the film, but he's not keen to tell Kahei why. In the play, Satine, Yoshisaburo's counterpart, killed a man who had offended his sister, but the details of Yoshisaburo's crime are much more of a mystery.
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* BriefAccentImitation: Koji Mitsui does a pretty good Bokuzen Hidari impression in the final scene.
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* ForgetfulJones: The actor, for the life of him, can not remember the lines he used to say. Ironically, when he is around, nobody is around to hear him except for Osen, who thinks he's "high as a kite".

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* ForgetfulJones: The actor, for the life of him, can not remember the lines he used to say. Ironically, when he is around, does remember, nobody is around to hear him except for Osen, who thinks he's "high as a kite".
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Osen, who is a prostitute but a dreamer.

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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Osen, who HenpeckedHusband: Shimazo is a prostitute beaten and bossed around by his wife, Otaki, at the end, but a dreamer.you can't blame her.
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-->'''Tatsu''': Why don't you hurry up... ''(he screams at Shimazo through his unfinished bucket as though it were a barrel)'' ''AND HITCH YOURSELF TO OTAKI?!''

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-->'''Tatsu''': Why don't you hurry up... ''(he screams at Shimazo through his unfinished bucket as though it were a barrel)'' megaphone)'' ''AND HITCH YOURSELF TO OTAKI?!''
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-->"[=TheeeeeEEEERE=]'' '''ONCE WAS A TRIANGULAR FELLOW, WHO STOOD ON A SQUARE PLATFORM, PLAYING HIS SONG..."'''

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-->"[=TheeeeeEEEERE=]'' -->"''[=TheeeeeEEEERE=]'' '''ONCE WAS A TRIANGULAR FELLOW, WHO STOOD ON A SQUARE PLATFORM, PLAYING HIS SONG..."''''''"
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-->"[=TheeeeeEEEERE=]'' '''ONCE WAS A TRIANGULAR FELLOW, WHO STOOD ON A SQUARE PLATFORM, PLAYING HIS SONG..."'''
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* DomesticAbuser: Tomekichi beats, verbally abuses and ignores Asa.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Shimazo is a police deputy, but not a particularly good one.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Shimazo is a police deputy, but not a particularly good one. His incompetence eventually gets him fired.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Shimazo is a police deputy, but not a particularly good one.
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* GossipyHen: Unokichi is a male version. He's the one who spills the beans that Sutekichi has been having sex with Okayo.

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* GossipyHen: [[GossipyHens Gossipy Hen]]: Unokichi is a male version. He's the one who spills the beans that Sutekichi has been having sex with Okayo.
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* GossipyHen: Unokichi is a male version. He's the one who spills the beans that Sutekichi has been having sex with Okayo.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Naturally, since it's based on a Gorky play.
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* NoodleImplements: Yoshisaburo murdered a "jerk" with a cleaver ten years prior to the events of the film, but he's not keen to tell Kahei why.
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''The Lower Depths'' (1957) (''Donzoko'', lit. ''Rock Bottom'') is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on [[Theatre/TheLowerDepths the play]] by Creator/MaximGorky.

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''The Lower Depths'' (1957) (''Donzoko'', lit. ''Rock Bottom'') is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa, Creator/AkiraKurosawa, based on [[Theatre/TheLowerDepths the play]] by Creator/MaximGorky.
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* OddNameOut: Asa is the only woman in the film whose name doesn't begin with "O": the other women are Osugi, Okayo, Osen and Otaki.
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* FakeAristocrat: Tonosama claims to be a former samurai, but he's more likely this. He smokes, drinks in excess, insults everybody and cheats at gambling, behaviour unbecoming of his supposed status. His only evidence is a broken katana.

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* FakeAristocrat: Tonosama claims to be a former samurai, but he's more likely this. He smokes, drinks in excess, pays Osen the prostitute for sex, insults everybody and cheats at gambling, behaviour unbecoming of his supposed status. His only evidence is a broken katana.
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* FakeAristocrat: Tonosama claims to be a former samurai, but he's more likely this. He smokes, drinks [[note:A samurai never drinks in excess, although he could be a ronin in a debased society like [[Film/{{Yojimbo}} Sanjuro Kuwabatake]]]], insults everybody and cheats at gambling, behaviour unbecoming of his supposed status. His only evidence is a broken katana.

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* FakeAristocrat: Tonosama claims to be a former samurai, but he's more likely this. He smokes, drinks [[note:A samurai never drinks in excess, although he could be a ronin in a debased society like [[Film/{{Yojimbo}} Sanjuro Kuwabatake]]]], insults everybody and cheats at gambling, behaviour unbecoming of his supposed status. His only evidence is a broken katana.

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