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1952

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Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a playground for the children in an .. Read more

Starring	Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Ikiru

Starring	Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Studio	BFI VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 20 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1952 To Rent: DVD: 06 Oct 2003

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  A strange film this. The pace is sometime agonizingly slow, the end scenes specifically so. it could have been at least 20 minutes shorter. Saying that, the ... read more »
  
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  A brilliant story of human frailty and strength. Tragic and funny as is all human life. An indictment on all society in which we have so ... read more »
  
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  Challenge to the established order
  
  A wonderfully subtle depiction of one man's quiet, considered rejection of what he has done and stood for during his working life. The stultifying effects ... read more »
  
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  Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a ...