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Contents. Ikiru. Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo ...
Apr 4, 2009 · What it Means to Live. by Aryeh Kaufman Volume 13, Issue 4 / April 2009 29 minutes (7017 words) 1. Introduction to Ikiru. Ikiru, meaning “to live” or “living,” was directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1952 under Toho Productions. Kurosawa, with the help of Hashimoto and Oguni, wrote the screenplay for the black and white film at age 42.
Dec 30, 2022 · Soon two presences impinge. The backs of the heads of a group of children, awed and giggling, rise up in the foreground. And the two senior members of the samurai saviour-gang pass behind Mifune ...
Nov 9, 2022 · Kurosawa quickly built on Hashimoto’s treatment, writing an unforgettable early scene—both comical and enraging—where a group of local women seeking help for the sewage problem is shuffled ...
Ikiru. One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two ...
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Mar 23, 2010 · This is maturely to acknowledge the phenomenology of personal feeling as such. To be so profoundly affected by a work of art, whatever the feeling, this is a gift that isn’t often given. It is actually extremely rare, truly precious. So the first thing I have to say about Ikiru —and ultimately to Kurosawa—is thank you.
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Sep 29, 1996 · Ikiru. Drama. 143 minutes ‧ 1952. Roger Ebert. September 29, 1996. 6 min read. The old man knows he is dying of cancer. In a bar, he tells a stranger he has money to spend on a “really good time,” but doesn’t know how to spend it. The stranger takes him out on the town, to gambling parlors, dance halls and the red light district, and ...
