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	Ikiru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ikiru (生きる) is a 1952 fl and white movie written and directed by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and inspired by Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
		Ikiru looks at the problem of a bureaucracy in post-war Japan and explores existentialism.
		Ikiru is a significant Kurosawa film because it manages to be a powerful movie and stray from the regular Kurosawa-film conventions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ikiru (485 words)

	Ikiru - DVD Movie Central
		Ikiru is set in an atmosphere of post-war modernism as Japan struggled to adapt to its new-found democracy and capitalism.
		Ikiru is truly an astounding film, using a wide variety of deep focus shots, pan shots, tracking shots, boom shots, numerous close-ups, and much more to develop and communicate the story, even in the long stretches where there is minimal dialogue.
		Ikiru is shown in its original fl and white, full-frame presentation, employing a transfer that was created from a newly restored 35mm print.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/ikiru.htm (2053 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ideology is different (Ikiru represents the reformist idealism of postwar Japan, just as It’s a Wonderful Life expresses postwar America’s longing for continuity with the past), but the similarities are striking.
		The tension between the representable and the private is the source of the immense pathos of Ikiru.
		Among Ikiru’s other indelible images: the mute excitement with which Watanabe, seeing the vacant lot for the first time during a rain shower, steps out from under the umbrellas of his entourage to explore it.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02604684.htm (765 words)

	Akira Kurosawa
		Ikiru is the subtly poignant and heartbreaking story of Kanji Watanabi (Takashi Shimura), a middle aged government bureaucrat who has been diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer.
		Ikiru is a simply told, profoundly moving film about the brevity of life and the search for meaning.
		Ikiru is the story of humanity, the tragedy of an unremarkable life, the compassionate waking of a world in oblivious slumber.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kurosawa.html (1653 words)

	Static Multimedia - Ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Ikiru is life affirming in the way that the statement was meant to be interpreted: To expose the many pains and pleasures of everyday living and to come to an understanding that life is made up of both.
		For the first half of Ikiru, Watanabe flees from his fear by deserting his job, going on a tear with a writer he meets in a bar, and most importantly, developing a tender yet confusing crush on a young girl from his office.
		Ikiru is an essential film for anyone interested in Kurosawa's canon, particularly his later work.
	www.staticmultimedia.com /content/film/reviews/dvd/review_1095202315 (1322 words)

	ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came.' The story of a man diagnosed with stomach cancer, Kurosawa's film is a serious contemplation of the nature of existence and the question of how we find meaning in our lives.
		Opening with a shot of an x-ray, showing the main character's stomach, Ikiru tells the tale of a dedicated, downtrodden civil servant who, diagnosed with a fatal cancer, learns to change his dull, unfulfilled existence, and suddely discovers a zest for life.
		Beautifully played by Takashi Shimura (who starred in 21 of Kurosawa's films), Ikiru is an intensely lyrical and moving film, and was one of the Kurosawa's own favourites.
	www.happyhunter.com /ikiru (312 words)

	Animefringe: February 2004 - Reviews - Ikiru
		Ikiru is often mentioned with Seven Samurai as Kurosawa's best films.
		While not a Kurosawa regular, she is a talented actress and a joy to watch during the film.
		They told me then that Ikiru was scheduled for a January 2004 release and that good things were planned for it.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/2004/02/review/05.php (1158 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Ikiru: Criterion Collection
		Just as Seven Samurai and Ikiru occupy different genres (the former is a jidai-geki, a period film, while the latter is a gendai-geki, a contemporary drama), they present opposite perspectives on the individual/group dialectic.
		Ikiru, after all, means "to live," and Kurosawa shows little interest in Watanabe's death beyond its role as a catalyst for his blossoming humanity.
		Ikiru was one of the last films in which Kurosawa utilized deep focus, and this DVD presents an image with enough definition to fully appreciate the mastery of his compositions.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/ikiru.php (1965 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Ikiru
		The affirmation is found in the moral message of the film, which, in turn, is contained in the title: Ikiru is the intransitive verb meaning “to live.” This is the affirmation: existence is enough.
		In the 1948 film, the reason was that he was tracing a parallel between doctor and gangster; in the 1963 picture, he was concerned with practice and theory (and illusion and reality) on a very large scale.
		In Ikiru it is important that the second half becomes posthumous, because much of the irony of the film results from a (wrong) assessment of Watanabe’s actions made by others after his death.
	criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=221&eid=335§ion=essay (430 words)

	VHS : Ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet Ikiru remains a very simple film, which says nothing original: it's not what is shown, but how, that is important, as in Flaubert's story "A Simple Heart".
		Ikiru (To Live) is a chilling depiction of the film's "hero", Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), a civil servant, who works in the city office as the Chief clerk.
		IKIRU means to_live in japanese and this beautiful movie is one of the best representations ever of what really matters in life.
	www.w3privacy.com /6302919649/Ikiru.html (773 words)

	Ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“Ikiru,” directed by the brilliant Akira Kurosawa (“The Seven Samurai”;), is, on the other hand, a distinct work of art.
		Watanabe (Kanji Watanabe) works at Tokyo City Hall, a father, and a sick man. “Ikiru” opens with the pronouncement of his unknown illness, and then through a series of flashbacks shows the later moments of his life when he attempts to reclaim the human spirit that has escaped him over the years.
		“Ikiru” is a case study of a director that refuses to pacify the viewer.
	movies.zertinet.com /2003/ikiru.htm (693 words)

	X-raying postwar Japan Ikiru (1952)
		Ikiru, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic film, has been remastered and is currently being shown throughout North America.
		Ikiru’s climactic scene is Watanabe’s wake, in which the impact of his life is examined.
		Ikiru is an extraordinary film both in its look and content.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/ikir-m08.shtml (1398 words)

	DVD of the Week: (1/26/2004): Ikiru
		Ikiru (which means "To Live", or "Living" in Japanese) is one of the greatest films by Akira Kurosawa, himself one of the greatest of all directors.
		Ikiru starts with Watanabe already doomed, so that there is never a moment when we are not looking at him and fearing for him.
		Their version of Ikiru is a two-disc set, the first being the movie itself with a commentary track by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2004/01-26-2004.htm (1256 words)

	ikiru
		"Ikiru (To Live)" is a moving drama about a man who struggles to come to terms with his terminal cancer.
		Ikiru is a lonely, bureaucrat who works for a government agency.
		After Ikiru's death, we see poignant flashbacks, which show how he made a difference at the end of his life.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20036q/id1878.htm (495 words)

	village voice > film > Ikiru; Love Liza by Michael Atkinson
		The sort of dependably sapient, soulful art film that used to wear the Janus Films logo like a duke's robe, the film is a Samurai-free study of aging and contemporary values—Ozu-ish issues he'd only return to 40 years hence, with his final film, Madadayo.
		Often heavy-handed but never less than heartfelt, Ikiru ("To Live") is universal in its thrust and startlingly astute in its narrative engineering.
		Ikiru scrutinizes what little use the postwar generation has for its elders (though far from villainous, Watanabe's son is a self-obsessed lout), but its largest target is Balkanized local government.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0301/atkinson.php (747 words)

	Ikiru (1952) - Review - Piddleville
		Characters have a range of interpretations, many of which are self-serving, but as this part of the film progresses an image of Watanabe begins to cohere until we are finally left with the essence of Watanabe, the essence of life (which the word ikiru means, "to live").
		Kurosawa also uses sound to great effect in Ikiru, associating life with a cacophony of vibrancy (such as the entering the street scene mentioned earlier).
		Ikiru is a tremendously life affirming movie made by one of cinema's great masters, Akira Kurosawa.
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review238_Ikiru.htm (881 words)

	Ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" is a tale of life and death and how man questions his very existence when faced with his final breaths.
		And the simple, poignant questioning of the audience marks the beginning of a thread which runs the length of this film: "Ikiru" means to both narrate the moral-rich story of Watanabe and engage the audience on such a deeply personal level that in turn, they question their own existence.
		Immensely provocative existential questions are the foundation from which "Ikiru" is born, and are made manifest in Watanabe's reflection on his cancer-stricken life.
	www.students.haverford.edu /east/east260/projects/ikiru.html (3239 words)

	Movie Review - Ikiru - eFilmCritic
		Ikiru (meaning "to live") centers around Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), a bureaucrat who has lived the better part of his life at a desk.
		Ikiru looks beautiful (even on the small screen - the Criterion Collection DVD transfer of the film for this review was pretty much flawless); Kurosawa holds his shots (including numerous close-ups of Shimura's haggard face) to the point of almost discomfort, but then that's probably the point.
		Ikiru has leapt to near the front of the list of my favorite Kurosawa films, right behind Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, but it's a completely different kind of movie than those.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=5674 (1082 words)

	Ikiru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ikiru is essentially told in two different narrative forms.
		There are two scenes in Ikiru which particularly blew me away.
		Closing the second half of the film- (which is) a reflection on how he changed the lives of many.
	www.thegreypilgrim.com /ikiru.htm (355 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Ikiru
		Considered by some to be Akira Kurosawa’s greatest achievement, Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of a man’s death.
		The result is a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, resulting in a full portrait of a man who lacked understanding from others in life.
		Ikiru is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=221 (222 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Ikiru: The Criterion Collection
		Death and the process of dying were never far from Kurosawa's thoughts; after all, his older brother, whom he adored, committed suicide at a young age, while, years later, the director would attempt to take his own life after a string of box office failures in the late 1960s.
		Whereas Rashomon's narrative inventiveness was mostly an intellectual exercise (and a brilliant one at that), Ikiru's fragmented tale adds unexpectedly rich layers of emotional resonance to what could've been an unpleasantly blunt wallow in despair.
		What lingers in memory are the two moonlit shots — one through a jungle-gym and the other straight-on — of an emaciated Watanabe swinging peacefully in the park, singing his theme as he succumbs to the sickness that spurred him to action and gave his life meaning.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/i/ikiru_cc.shtml (1416 words)

	grubstreet books - a publisher of literary non-fiction
		Elizabeth Harrison Ikiru was born in 1949 and married in 1970.
		Ikiru took her pen name after seeing a Kurosawa film, Ikiru, in which a dying civil servant, who has shuffled paper all his life, struggles to do something meaningful before he dies.
		Elizabeth Ikiru died in the spring of 1987.
	www.grubstreetbooks.ca (1584 words)

	Reviews: Ikiru - Christianity Today Movies
		Ikiru, recently released on DVD, is the story of Mr.
		But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things," and the rest of this film is taken up with Watanabe's getting of wisdom, with his efforts to escape the mummified life he has settled for.
		"Ikiru" means "to live," and this is in every way a resurrection story: a simple man is desperate to find new life as he faces his own death.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/ikiru.html (1237 words)

	Ikiru
		More remarkable than the brilliant film making in Ikiru, however, is its deep and powerful wisdom, wisdom that one might expect from a more senior artist, all the more remarkable in one barely into middle age.
		Ikiru ("To Live") centers on Kanji Watanabe, a civil servant laboring in the city bureaucracy for thirty years, a widower who never remarried, and the father of an ungrateful son.
		When Watanabe is told he has terminal cancer, he looks back on the wasteland of his life and, after casting about for meaning, finds a way, his way to leave a mark behind, evidence that he had lived a life worth living.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Ikiru.htm (406 words)

	DVD Breakdown \| Ikiru (1952)
		Kurosawa is best known today for two regular elements in his films: his preference for a western-like setting in feudal Japan (including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ran) and his regular collaboration with star Toshiro Mifune, who played key parts in most of Kurosawa's films from 1948 until their much-publicized parting of ways in 1965.
		But Ikiru, one of his most celebrated, emotional and universally accessible works, features neither of these elements and is therefore frequently overlooked by new fans charmed by the action-packed samurai masterpieces that have become so popular in the West.
		Unfortunately, this documentary was produced by Kurosawa's own production company, and not only does it pertain more to the master's latter years as a director, but it also strikes a slavishly hagiographic tone that makes it a curiously lifeless affair, though fans of the director will still find points of interest.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/ikiru.html (645 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Ikiru (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His voice is soft and he scarcely moves his lips, but the bar falls silent, the party girls and the drunken salary men drawn for a moment into a reverie about the shortness of their own lives.
		The word "Ikiru" has been translated as "To Live," and at some point on his long descent into despair, Mr.
		Ahead was his popular classic "The Seven Samurai" (1954) and other samurai films like "The Hidden Fortress" (1960), the film that inspired the characters R2D2 and C3PO in "Star Wars." The film was not released internationally until 1960, maybe because it was thought "too Japanese," but in fact it is universal.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960929/REVIEWS08/401010329/1023 (1162 words)

	boku to kanojo to kanojo no ikiru michi - J-Fan Drama
		Now, it is winter 2004, and the most anticipated drama of the season is the pseudo-sequel to "boku no ikiru michi" titled "boku to kanojo to kanojo no ikiru michi".
		If you've seen "boku no ikiru michi", then you know there is a very good reason why Kusanagi's character won't be making a second appearance.
		In "boku no ikiru michi", he played a pure-hearted character that the audience sympathized with and couldn't possibly hate.
	www.j-fan.com /drama/drama.cgi?action=viewrev&season=Winter_2004&show=boku_to_kanojo_to_kanojo_no_ikiru_michi (675 words)

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