Ikiru (1952)
(Living)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 143m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki
Synopsis:
A civil servant dying of stomach cancer struggles to make his remaining months worth living after thirty years of drudgery.
Review:
Ultimately life-affirming, this frequently depressing film is slow to get to the point and then vitiates the effect with an unwisely protracted post mortem interrupted by flashbacks. Nevertheless it is a key film in representing post-war Japanese society and it makes political points as well as some sentimental ones.
(Living)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 143m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki
Synopsis:
A civil servant dying of stomach cancer struggles to make his remaining months worth living after thirty years of drudgery.
Review:
Ultimately life-affirming, this frequently depressing film is slow to get to the point and then vitiates the effect with an unwisely protracted post mortem interrupted by flashbacks. Nevertheless it is a key film in representing post-war Japanese society and it makes political points as well as some sentimental ones.
(Living)
Country: JAP
Technical: bw 143m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki
Synopsis:
A civil servant dying of stomach cancer struggles to make his remaining months worth living after thirty years of drudgery.
Review:
Ultimately life-affirming, this frequently depressing film is slow to get to the point and then vitiates the effect with an unwisely protracted post mortem interrupted by flashbacks. Nevertheless it is a key film in representing post-war Japanese society and it makes political points as well as some sentimental ones.