zo 13 juli 2025
The wonderful Ikiru shows Akira Kurosawa at his most empathetic: he emphasizes life through impending death. Takashi Shimura sublimely portrays an elderly civil servant with cancer searching for meaning in his final days.
Kurosawa's hushed, deeply human character study of loneliness in the face of death casts a gentle glance at what it means to live. More than a movie title, Ikiru is also a Japanese term, which can be translated as “living” or "living one's life. The terminally ill official in Ikiru asks himself how he can still give his life meaning and impact in the face of death. 4K restoration by Toho.
- Land Japan
- Jaar 1952
- Duur 143 min
- Taal Japanese, English subtitles
- Regie Akira Kurosawa
- Acteurs Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Makoto Kabori, Kumeko Urabe, Nobuo Nakawura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minosuke Yamada, Haruo Tanaka, Bokuzen Hidari, Minoru Chiaki, Shinichi Himori, Yunosuke Ito
Tickets
Zo 13 jul
19:00
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