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By Spencer P (651) on 17 Aug 2016

One of the very few perfect movies i've seen in my life. The art of cinema exists to achieve such heights…

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By Kiarash K (3) on 16 Aug 2016

It belongs to a wonderful area for social justice thinking: after ww2 and before 60s anti-establishment movement…

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By Andy T (601) on 05 Jun 2016

Ikiru is a compelling, riveting, and spectacular story about the meaning of life, found in Akira Kurosawa's excellent direction, and powered…

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By Simon D (1,648) on 19 Apr 2016

A very inspiring story of a bloke who has wasted his life in a meaningless office job then has a moment of clarity. Splendidly Japanese…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 07 Apr 2016

Kurosawa achieves the piercing emotion and poetry of the Italian neorealists, but by opposite means: he doesn't make the camera disappear;…

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By Sebastian O (208) on 05 Apr 2016

I'm still pretty unfamiliar with Akira Kurosawa's work as this is only my third film from the man. We follow a dying man…

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By Ryan V (1,568) on 17 Mar 2016

The first half of Ikiru (to live) focuses on an elderly bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) who embarks on a heartbreaking quest for identity after…

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By Nik M (576) on 04 Mar 2016

Ikiru is such a sad movie…

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By Jason M (2,623) on 04 Jan 2016

This was a very well-done movie about a man questioning his life and finding purpose before he dies…

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By Brad S (2,657) on 26 Dec 2015

This is an absolute Masterpiece, and might be master director Akira Kurosawa's best film…

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By Paul D (6,077) on 15 Dec 2015

Slow, moody and poignant, all of which emphasis the deep soul searching that occurs in the first part of the movie, and make up the sum of…

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By Robert H (1,967) on 13 Nov 2015

Will watch this for 10th time on my way to Singapore…

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By Jayakrishnan R (1,070) on 17 Sep 2015

This is a wonderfully idealistic, sentimental meditation on what it means to live…

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By Byron B (1,084) on 26 Dec 2014

The existential struggle. One of my favorites of his…

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By Kyle M (2,387) on 08 Oct 2014

One of the greatest, saddest yet most uplifting films ever made, if that makes any sense. A masterpiece if ever there was one…

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By Justin R (1,063) on 09 Aug 2014

Directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Takashi Shimura, this drama is loaded full of irony…

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By Christopher A (601) on 07 Aug 2014

A sort of movie that I find not many people know about because it isn't in English and another being not well known to my generation…

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By Juli N (550) on 12 May 2014

Great movie, heartbreaking and life affirming at the same time. Also an amazing performance from Takashi Shimura. A complete masterpiece…

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By Mark L (1,544) on 04 May 2014

Slow at first, but crescendos into a master work of art.....worth every effort you can make to see it....To pick a favorite Kurosawa film is…

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By Stuart K (1,373) on 30 Apr 2014

Directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, this touching and moving drama was partially inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of…

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