Ikiru
Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
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| Produced by | Sōjirō Motoki |
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| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Edited by | Kōichi Iwashita |
| Music by | Fumio Hayasaka |
Production company | Toho Company |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 143 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The major themes of the film include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics. Having won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards, it is considered one of the greatest films of all time.
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