These touchingly humanist tales discover unexpected beauty where few would think to look. In Satsuki Okawa’s intimate, gently humorous short TIDY UP, a brother and sister find themselves at odds over how to deal with their deceased mother’s home, which has become a hoarder’s haven now full of memories. Characters also find refuge amid unusual circumstances in Akira Kurosawa’s intensely personal DODES’KA-DEN—the master director’s first film in color, which he uses to blazing, expressionistic effect—which compassionately portrays the struggles and dreams of a band of social outcasts living in a rubbish dump outside Tokyo.