Three-peat!  Director Akira Kurosawa's first color feature finds the tragedies and human strength in a small shantytown, inhabited by an ensemble cast each facing their own poverty-driven struggles. What follows is a categorization of the ways in which people contend with suffering: ranging from the inspiring and humorous, to the accepting and despairing.

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be joined by a special guest (!!) to discuss and review Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979).