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Join us for a seven-film series showcasing many of Japanese master Akira Kurosawa’s greatest films in breathtaking new 4K restorations! https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/kurosawa-in-focus/Akira Kurosawa, 1952
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 twopart structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.
“One of the few movies that might actually be able to inspire someone to lead their life a little differently… Over the years I have seen IKIRU every five years or so, and each time it has moved me, and made me think. And the older I get, the more Watanabe seems like every one of us.” – Roger Ebert
“IKIRU should revive Kurosawa’s reputation as a director who was not merely a movie master but also a virtuoso humanist.”
– Michael Sragow, The New Yorker
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1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117, 1005 McCausland Ave, St Louis, MO 63117-1924, United States, Richmond Heights
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