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Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning.
Ikiru is a 1952 classic film about a bureaucrat who tries to find meaning in his life after he learns he has terminal cancer. The film explores themes of death, bureaucracy, and human dignity, and features a famous scene of a man playing a harmonica on a bridge.
Watch the classic film by Akira Kurosawa about a dying bureaucrat who finds meaning in life. Ikiru (To Live) is a 1952 Japanese drama inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Sep 29, 1996 · Ikiru is a 1952 film by Akira Kurosawa about a dying bureaucrat who decides to live for the first time in his life. Roger Ebert praises the film's low-key pacing, the final shot, and its message of hope and inspiration.
Featuring a beautifully nuanced performance by Takashi Shimura as a bureaucrat diagnosed with stomach cancer, Ikiru is an intensely lyrical and moving film which explores the nature of existence and how we find meaning in our lives.
Ikiru is a well-acted and deeply moving humanist tale about a man facing his own mortality, one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's most intimate films.
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death.