Ikiru

Ikiru is one of his most acclaimed, a film at turns both touching and mind-meltingly dull.

2010 March : Scrubbles.net 2010

Ikiru is one of his most acclaimed, a film at turns both touching and mind-meltingly dull.

Weekly Mishmash: March 7-14 : Scrubbles.net 2010

He makes movies about women factory workers in World War II, about daily life in the slums in the �50s, and in one of his greatest films, "Ikiru," he tells the tale of a dying bureaucrat who doesn't want to have lived meaninglessly.

Giving DVDs That Take You To A New World 2009

"Ikiru" (1952) is the modern story of a sterile bureaucrat who learns he has terminal cancer and breaks through to real life before he dies.

Tolstoy With A Camera 2008

The theme of self-fulfillment drives his greatest film, "Ikiru" ( "To Live").

Tolstoy With A Camera 2008

Over the years I have seen "Ikiru" every five years or so, and each time it has moved me, and made me think.

Ikiru Divers 2007

In his classic 1950s movie "Ikiru" ( "To Live"), Akira Kurosawa told the story of a man whose doctors refused to reveal to him his diagnosis, cancer.

Turning Un-Japanese 2007

Over the years I have seen "Ikiru" every five years or so, and each time it has moved me, and made me think.

Archive 2007-11-01 Divers 2007

Inspired by "Ikiru" and Visconti's "Death in Venice," both films about men at the end of life, "Wilderness" is an emotional transformation for the seasoned improviser Peter Schmitz.

The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010

I always preferred 'Sanshiro Sugata', 'Nora Inu', 'Yoidore Tenshi' and 'Ikiru' myself, but then again almost all of Kurosawa's films (minus the propaganda and the 'forced' films ') are pure cinematic genius in my eyes.

Chris Rock Remaking Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low | /Film 2010