Word: ikiru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenth picture, and since Rashomon he has produced a relentless succession of masterpieces. Seven Samurai (1954), considered by many the best action movie ever made, is a military idyl with a social moral: the meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going to die. Yojimbo (1962), conceived as a parody of the usual Hollywood western, mingles blood and belly laughs...
Akira Kurosawa is the Homer of the current cinema, and like Homer he some times nods. Yet in two pictures now showing in the U.S., the great Japanese director (Rashomon, Ikiru, Yojimbo) demonstrates that the energy of genius can make a miss almost as exciting...
...movies, where every man is a genius until proven otherwise, only one director of recent years has not been proven otherwise: Japan's Akira Kurosawa. In Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood he displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence. In Ikiru, one of cinema's rare great works of art. he revealed a rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges as a bone-cracking satirist...
...doubt about it now: Japan's Akira Kurosawa must be numbered with Sergei Eisenstein and D. W. Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering...
BRATTLE: IKIRU ("To Live."), Akira Kurosawa's masterwork, is really two movies--the same one twice. This beautifully photographed and acted story of the tribulations of a dying civil servant is excellent film-making the first time through; repetition, however, blunts the effect. Undoubtedly the best foreign movie of 1960, nonetheless. Evngs...