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Review of by Richard Brody for New Yorker — 07 Apr 2016

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Kurosawa achieves the piercing emotion and poetry of the Italian neorealists, but by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear; instead... he deploys his camera so sharply and unerringly that it seems to take X-rays of the spirit.

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This review of Ikiru (1952) was written by and published by New Yorker on 07 Apr 2016.

Ikiru has generally received very positive reviews.

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