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Dodes 'Ka-Den - (Movie Clip) Train Freak!

Roku-chan (Yoshitaka Zushi) in the middle of his Tokyo slum pantomime, imagining himself a conductor, the film's title being Japanese slang for the sound of a streetcar, early in Akira Kurosawa's Dodes 'Ka-Den, 1970.

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