Word: ikiru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikiru (Japanese). The last days of a quite plain man dying of cancer, his effort to do good before it is too late, the devastating ironies that follow his death. Perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa...
...Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism...
...Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism. The central figure is dying of cancer; his final months lead through the discovery of goodness to one of the crudest pieces of sustained misanthropy the screen has ever shown...
...Ikiru (Toho; Thomas J. Brandon), made in 1952 but only recently pried out of a Tokyo film vault by an enterprising U.S. distributor, has long been acclaimed by film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...