Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1952 / 143 min.
The wonderful Ikiru is Akira Kurosawa at his most empathetic: emphasising life with death fast approaching. Takashi Shimura sublimely plays an elderly public servant with cancer looking for meaning during his final days.
Kurosawa’s serene, deeply human study of loneliness when facing death takes ab empathetic look at what it means to be alive. Ikiru is more than a film title, it can be translated as ‘living’ or ‘living your life’. In Ikiru, a terminally ill public servant wonder show he can give his life meaning and impact now that death is fast approaching.
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1952
Country
JP
Original title
Ikiru
Length
143 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
NLD or ENG
Format
DCP
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