Ikiru (1952)

Film

Ikiru (1952)

Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Written by

Language

Japanese

MPAA Rating

Not Rated

Length

2 hours 23 minutes

Genres

Drama

Starring

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In the very begining of the film, an agin bureaucrat learns that he has stomach cancer. Realizing that he has wasted his entire life bureaucracy, he sets out to find some meaning in his life.
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Considered by many to be Akira Kurosawa'a greatest achievement, IKIRU (TO LIVE) presents the director at his most compassionate-- affirming life through the exploration of a man's death. Takashi Shimura portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip away the veneer from his existence and find meaning in his final days. Told in two parts, IKIRU offers Watanabe's...
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