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One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, IKIRU shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death.Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days.
Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, IKIRU is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.
IKIRU was remade in 2022 as LIVING, starring an Oscar-nominated Bill Nighy.
IKIRU plays as part of Akira Kurosawa: A Retrospective, presenting 7 masterpieces in brand new restorations this August: https://amherstcinema.org/kurosawa
New 4K restoration by Toho Co., Ltd., released by Janus Films.
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28 Amity St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002
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