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Ikiru

DVD • October 9, 1952 • 2h 23m • PG • Box Office $55,240

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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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Original Title:	生きる
Sub Genres:	dying and death, infatuation , office politics, public works, short time to live, bureaucrat, thoughts of retirement, terminal cancer, city park, civil servant, monotonous life, drunk nostalgia, accomplishments, meaning of life, wake, obsequies, japan, bureaucracy, age difference, death, praise, office, night life, sense of life... more
Release Date:	Theatre 10/09/1952, Theatre US 03/25/1956, DVD 04/07/2006
Language:	Japanese (JA)
Box Office:	$55,240 (Foreign)
Age Rating:	PG
Director:	Akira Kurosawa
Type:	Movie
Links:	TVDB, IMDB, Letterboxd, TMDB, WIKIEN

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May 10, 2018 - by harryblarr

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ikiru has a familiar premise that has been explored and engaged with countless of films, some are more effective than others, but does the message last more than just a brief moment of inspiration? the message the movie wants to send across is a fairly simple one, how to live a life meaningfully, and ikiru tackles it with a slight different approach. akira kurosawa splits ikiru down into two essential parts, dependant on each other. the first part is fairly cliché and has a fair share of heavy handed moments. the narrator and narrative itself leave only a small room for thoughts, asking us to... read more

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May 11, 2018 - by Oscar Andersson

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beautiful movie, but gets a bit to tangled up in the bureocracy angle. i'd prefer if they toned that down a bit but it was still a phenomenal movie read more

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Ikiru: "To Live." Unapologetic about how people can go through life just not caring. Sad that little time left can make you realize that

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