Ikiru - Directed by Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1952 | 137m | PG low level offensive language | In Japanese with English subtitles
A favourite of Steven Spielberg, this deeply affecting, humanist masterpiece stars Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura as an ordinary civil servant who discovers what it means to live.
“Piercing emotion and poetry… seems to take x-rays of the human spirit” – Richard Brody, New Yorker
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