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Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 0
Ikiru is a well-acted and deeply moving humanist tale about a man facing his own mortality, one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's most intimate films.
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0
Ikiru is a well-acted and deeply moving humanist tale about a man facing his own mortality, one of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's most intimate films.
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Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to live. He is completely alone in the world -- his wife is dead, his son is practically estranged, and his co-workers (the people with whom he has more contact than any others) are little more than
Mar 25, 1956 Wide
Jan 6, 2004
Cowboy Pictures
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Akira Kurosawa's greatest film.
A masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism.
Top CriticKurosawa performs a tour-de-force in keeping a dramatic thread throughout and avoiding the mawkish.
If you have never seen it, you should. If you have seen it before, your admiration will only increase.
It is a strangely fascinating and affecting film, up to a point.
Take a look at this film. At the very least, it'll prompt you to assess your balance of work and life, and you may find yourself putting in for a little vacation time.
Meticulously constructed, beautifully played and poignant.
Deeply moving.
Few actors besides Shimura, could pull off the older, round-shouldered protagonist's downcast face, later "unnatural" and scary to a young woman.
This may be the definitive portrait of a man who, examining his life, discovers that it may not be worth living.
A classic humanist tale without becoming mawkish.
Kurosawa's eclectic style is a delight: his striking, varied compositions reflecting the old man's journey from darkness to some kind of light right until the moving finale.
May not be the first movie you think of when ticking off the list of Kurosawa's best films, but it is the one that stands defiantly as his deepest, best acted and most watchable.
A shotgun blast of existential desperation
An unqualified masterpiece that just may be Kurosawa's best.
Ikiru is a thoughtful and truly well-made film, wherein Kurosawa has the opportunity to explore the human condition more fully than in his action-packed adventures
I go to the movie theater every week in hopes that someone out there still wants to make a film like "Ikiru."
A well crafted film with a heartfelt story that is poignant, deep, this masterpiece of a film laments life's biggest truths about our own measly, mortal existence. I haven't seen a modern movie quite like it. Ikiru is a brilliant film because of the ingenious cinematography, one would certainly agree to such; that it
October 31, 2011Super Reviewer
After being lied to by his doctor, a bureaucrat discovers that he has inoperable stomach cancer, and he searches hedonism, a co-worker, and his work for fulfillment before he meets his end.This film is simply marvelous. The performance by Takashi Shimura as the dying man is remarkable for his quiet sadness and
May 20, 2011
Super Reviewer
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