Ikiru (1952)

# Actors: Haruo Tanaka, Miki Odagiri, Minoru Chiaki, Shinichi Himori, Takashi Shimura

# Directors: Akira Kurosawa
# Rating: NOT RATED
# Studio: Criterion
# DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004
# Run Time: 143 minutes
# Country: Japan

# Actors: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
# Language: Japanese

Doomed
Living (International: English title) (informal English title)
To Live (International: English title) (informal English title)

In this film considered by some critics to be Akira Kurosawa’s greatest and most compassionate achievement Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai) portrays Kenji Watanabe an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days.

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