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Ikiru(Movie, 1952)

Original title: "生きる" (Japanese/JA)
2h 23min | Genre: Drama
IkiruRating: 4.2/5 (with 448448 votes)
Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The major themes of the film include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics. Having won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards, it is considered one of the greatest films of all time. ()
Movie poster of Ikiru

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About Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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Trailer for Ikiru + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Ikiru (1952) by Akira Kurosawa - Official Trailer(Trailer, 3:44)

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Plays in: Tokyo
Based on the work of: Leo Tolstoy ("The Death of Ivan Ilyich")
Derivative works/Adaptions: "Living" (movie, 2022)
Made by: Toho Company
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 25 languages: Arabic (AR), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/09/1952
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Viver"
"活下去"
"留芳颂"
"Ikiru Einmal richtig leben"
"Vivir"
"איקירו"
"Doomed"
"生きる"
"살다"
"이키루"
"Viver - Ikiru"
"To Live"
Revenue: 55,240 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:20185, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024