Ikiru

Ikiru
Ikiru
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by	Akira Kurosawa; Shinobu Hashimoto; Hideo Oguni;
Produced by	Sōjirō Motoki
Starring	Takashi Shimura; Miki Odagiri;
Cinematography	Asakazu Nakai
Edited by	Kōichi Iwashita
Music by	Fumio Hayasaka
Production; company	Toho Company
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	October 9, 1952;
Running time	143 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. 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.

The major themes of the film include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics. Having won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards, it is considered one of the greatest films of all time.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ "The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films". bbc. 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
^ Corliss, Richard (14 January 2010). "Ikiru". Time. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
^ "Ikiru". bfi.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-02.

[1] "The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films". bbc. 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[2] Corliss, Richard (14 January 2010). "Ikiru". Time. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2021-03-24.

[3] "Ikiru". bfi.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-05-02.

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