Ikiru

1952 Akira Kurosawa 2h 23m
Drama

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.

Cast

Takashi Shimura Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari Ohara
Miki Odagiri Toyo
Shinichi Himori Kimura
Minoru Chiaki Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada Subordinate Clerk Saito

Vibes

Emotional Deeply Moving Critic Favorite
The Filmatic Record No. 76 in The Filmatic 100

Double Feature Pairings

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Living 2022
Two versions of the same dying man. One Japanese original, one British remake, both about the urgency of doing something that matters before it is too late. Watch as a double feature

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