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Ikiru

Movie · 1952 · 143 min

A quiet, deeply moving meditation on mortality that asks you to sit with a man's regret and his late, small triumph.

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1952 film by Akira Kurosawa
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Year
1952
Runtime
143 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • identity
  • family
  • isolation
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Starring
Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kin Sugai, Nobuo Nakamura, Noriko Honma, Kamatari Fujiwara, Nobuo Kaneko
Music
Fumio Hayasaka
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai
Runtime
143 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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