Ikiru
1952 · 143 min
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Written by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari.
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.
Critics 98% · audiences 96% · streaming on HBO Max, Kanopy, Criterion Channel