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Ikiru

Ikiru
Drama | 1956 | NR. 2hr 23min
CAST: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa SILVER SCREEN SOCIETY | MAR 24, 2023 | Japanese with English Subtitles

One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate--affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.


JOIN US AT THE 2:00PM SHOWING ON Saturday, MARCH 25 FOR A PRE-SHOW TALK BY CLAUDIA GORBMAN, PROFESSOR EMERITA OF FILM STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA!


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Reviews
"[Kurosawa] is implemented with satirical brilliance and fine human interest... Lassitude in bureaucracy and skullduggery in politics are here to stay, he concedes, and only does the soul of man transcend his frailties."
Dorothy Masters, New York Daily News
"Kurosawa achieves the piercing emotion and poetry of the Italian neo-realists, but by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear; instead... he deploys his camera so sharply and unerringly that it seems to take X-rays of the spirit."
Richard Brody, New Yorker
"I think this is one of the few movies that might actually be able to inspire someone to lead their life a little differently."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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