desire to live

Liana 2022-04-20 09:01:48

Akira Kurosawa's literary drama used a large number of actors to portray ukiyo-e-like characters. It was not intended to be ugly, nor to highlight Watanabe, but to loosen the extremely rigid and bureaucratic government departments. Similarly, Akira Kurosawa also explored the meaning of life in this part, whether it is to pursue the excitement of sensuality, or the eternal youth and love... Everyone will have their own choices, but there are a few people who can be like crossing the border. Like the side, accept such a regretless and calm parting? The greatness of this human nature is not because of what Watanabe has done, but because in the last 5 months of his life he knew how to be a person who is valuable to himself and him.

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Extended Reading
  • Donna 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    It’s the first time I’ve watched it on the big screen. The theme is very heavy. The works of Akira Kurosawa’s heroic era, the terminal illness makes people “alive”, and it is still an elite morality, especially reflected in the heated debate at the funeral, which is too long. My favorite is the "rebirth" at the birthday party in the western restaurant, and the two scenes of being suspicious of a doctor. Section Chief Watanabe confronted the gang, as if Kanbei, Kuzang, and Shichiroji gathered together. "Katsushiro" played a young doctor.

  • Laila 2022-03-21 09:02:10

    Movie Language★★★★★ Play/Character★★★★★ Viewability★★★★★ Aftertaste★★★★★

Ikiru quotes

  • Novelist: That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!

  • Kanji: [singing] Life is brief / Fall in love, maiden / Before the crimson bloom / Fades from your lips / Before the tides of passion / Cool within you / For those of you / Who know no tomorrow...