Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A simple and minimal story by the famed Kurosawa. Ikiru seeks to paint a picture of a meager salaryman who has been given a frank and melancholic diagnosis, the reverberations of said diagnosis on his personal and professional life, and the resulting aftermath.
As a whole, the movie touches on largely Japanese cultural themes and undercurrents regarding a typical Japanese worker and universal themes of mortality and facing inevitability. Ikiru gives us a movie that is relateable to the current times despite its…