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Ikiru

1952, Movie, NR, 141 mins

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In IKIRU, Akira Kurosawa has created a subtle and moving account of a man who searches for meaning in the final days of his shallow existence. Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a clerk in a government office who discovers that he has cancer and, at most, only a year to live. Up to this point he has lived a highly structured life, rarely varying from routines. He has two children who offer him no comfort, and he decides he must find something to make him feel that his life ... read more leave a comment
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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 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 practically estranged, and his co-workers are little more than strangers. Rather than face a death alone in pathos, Shimura opts to make up for lost time by going to the bar, spending every last yen in his wallet and drinking himself to death. There he meets a black-clad artist who leads him on a hellish tour of the city after dark as the two crawl through every booze-soaked juke-joint in town.
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Length: 03:30
Posted: 11/1/2009
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A man who is dying of cancer decides to leave something of lasting importance. A finely done tear-jerker!
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Length: 00:44
Posted: 3/17/2008
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Year: 1952
Rated NR

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Cast
Takashi Shimura: Kanji Watanabe
Nobuo Kaneko: Mitsuo Watanabe
Kyoko Seki: Kazue Watanabe
Miki Odagiri: Toyo
Kamatari Fujiwara: Ono
Makoto Koburi: Kiichi Watanabe

 

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