Ikiru (生きる) (1952)
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How beautiful life is...
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing...
Takashi Shimura: Kanji Watanabe
Ikiru(生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed... read more
[Film] Ikiru (To Live)
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“As a great fan of Akira Kurasawa, Ikiru is not just Kurasawa's most moving film it is one of his very finest alongside Seven Samurai and Ran. It is as always beautifully made, sumptuous in look and the cinematography simple yet interesting. Kurasawa's direction is at its most delicate, making a story that could easily be mawkish and manipulative into a genuinely moving, powerful and quite inspiring one instead, and making us also care every step of the way for the dignified central character of Watanabe. Together with a hypnotic score, a thought-provoking script and a powerful, yet in a discreet and heart-wrenching way, lead performance from Takeshi Shimura, and you have a fantastic film.Overall, I can't praise Ikiru enough. Any complaints of how the final third is not as good as the rest ” read more
" Points: 16 Chosen by: sdepy83 (1), braian61mdp (6), fdlm4000 (9) Previous rank: it wasn't selected IMDB top 250 rank: 102"
"First viewing - Feb. 27th Ikiru is another interesting look at facing down mortality and one's legacy. The story starts out fairly straightforward, then somewhere after the midpoint it takes a different, fresh approach to play out the rest of the tale which I thought was admirable. I appreciated the messaging about finding one's passion and chasing after it, as well as the postscript that ends the film. I thought overall the film was very well done. Not sure if I'd sit through it again but I mi"