Ikiru Movie Review 1952

When a clerk finds out he is dying of cancer, he decides to build a children's playground and give something of himself back to the world. Highly acclaimed, heartbreaking drama from the unusually restrained Kurosawa; possibly his most "eastern" film. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 134 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

4 Bones

Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

Cast

Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagari, Yunosuke Ito

Cinematography

Asakazu Nakai

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Music

Fumio Hayasaka

Producer

Toho Films