Ikiru (1956)
1956
143 Minutes
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Ikiru is Kurosawa's melancholic rhapsody of the importance of living, and through an all-time great performance from Takashi Shimura, we the audience can easily empathize and meditate on this somber tale of life, death, and joy.1 member likes this review.
