JAPAN · 1952

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Golden Age mortality and death bureaucracy meaning and purpose life reflection redemption
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Year1952
CountryJapan
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
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