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Ikiru (Japanese: 生きる; 'To Live') is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. 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.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Akira Kurosawa · Shinobu Hashimoto · Hideo Oguni
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- Release date
- 1952 · Released
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Genres
- Drama
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Einmal wirklich leben
- Français
- Vivre
- Italiano
- Vivere
- 한국어
- 이키루
- Polski
- Piętno śmierci
- Themes
- old age ↗ stomach cancer ↗
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from Wikimedia Commons.