Sunday, June 29, 2008

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa
- The great strength of the picture is the total seriousness and importance of what Kurosawa has to say: to live is to love; the rest is cancer. -
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.

Review:
Deze film van de regisseur van de welbekende filosofische (Samurai) films 'Akira Kurosawa' heeft met Ikiru weer eens laten zien dat hij zeker tot één van de groten der cinema genoemd mag worden, in dezelfde categorie als wat mij betreft: Andrei Tarkovsky. Ikiru is een pure film in de zuiverste vorm van het woord. Soundmix: Mono, Muziek: Fumio Hayasaka, Jaar: 1952.

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