Fresh
Akira Kurosawa's greatest film.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
1952 · 2h 23m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
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Ikiru
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
- Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
- Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
- Miki Odagiri as Toyo
- Shin'ichi Himori as Kimura
- Shinichi Himori as Kimura
- Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi
- Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Kurosawa performs a tour-de-force in keeping a dramatic thread throughout and avoiding the mawkish.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Kurosawa's eclectic style is a delight: his striking, varied compositions reflecting the old man's journey from darkness to some kind of light right until the moving finale.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
If you have never seen it, you should. If you have seen it before, your admiration will only increase.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
It is a strangely fascinating and affecting film, up to a point.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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