Ikiru
Summary:
Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to live. He is completely alone in the world -- his wife is dead, his son is practic... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Takashi Shimura - (Kanji Watanabe)
Nobuo Kaneko - (Mitsuo Watanabe)
Kyoko Seki - (Kazue Watanabe)
Miki Odagiri - (Toyo Odagiri)
Makoto Kobori - (Kiighi Watanabe)
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Review:
This contemporary drama from Akira Kurosawa, better known for such sweeping samurai epics as The Seven Samurai (1954), is arguably his best film and the most articulate vision of his existential philosophy. The film's protagonist seems to spring directly from the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre or Leo Tolstoy's -The Death of Ivan Ilych: ... Continue >>
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