Japan Synopsis
どん底
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Lower Depths. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From TOHO
The 1956–1958 Japan Window
The Lower Depths holds position #8 of 31 Japan films in the 1956–1958 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1950s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1950s in Japan, 76 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Lower Depths premiered alongside 9 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 9 other Japan films in 1957.
The 100th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
110 audience reviews — more than 78% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (78th percentile) outruns trending popularity (44th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Lower Depths, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- slum dwellers · 5
- philosophical · 3
- landlord · 2
- landlady · 2
- class struggle · 1
- landlady tenant relationship · 1
- sisters love same man · 1
- slum · 8
- based on novel or book · 288
- love triangle · 55
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,940 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (58th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #848 of 1,933 (top 44%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | TOHO |
| Runtime | 2h 5m |
| Release Date | October 1, 1957 |
| IMDb | tt0050330 |