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Note des utilisateurs: 8.1/10 (8,383 votes)

Top 250: #240

Réalisateur:

Akira Kurosawa

Writers:

Shinobu Hashimoto
Akira Kurosawa
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Release Date:

25 mars 1956 (USA) suite

Genre:

Drame suite

Plot Summary:

Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing... suite

Plot Keywords:

Buddhist / Bureaucracy / Cancer / Finding The Inner Child / Mephistopheles suite

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins suite

Avis des utilisateurs:

Not just a film, but an incredible learning experience suite

(Cast overview, first billed only)

Takashi Shimura	...	Kanji Watanabe
Shinichi Himori	...	Kimura
Haruo Tanaka	...	Sakai
Minoru Chiaki	...	Noguchi
Miki Odagiri	...	Toyo Odagiri, employee
Bokuzen Hidari	...	Ohara
Minosuke Yamada	...	Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara	...	Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori	...	Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Kaneko	...	Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
Nobuo Nakamura	...	Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe	...	Patient
Isao Kimura	...	Intern
Masao Shimizu	...	Doctor
Yûnosuke Itô	...	Novelist

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Autre(s) titre(s) :

Doomed
Living (International: English title) (informal English title)
To Live (International: English title) (informal English title)
Vivre (France) [fr]
Vivre enfin un seul jour (France) [fr]
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Durée:

143 min / USA:140 min

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 suite

Son:

Mono

Classification:

USA:Not Rated / Finland:S / UK:PG (video rating) (1994) / UK:A (original rating) / Singapore:PG

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Japan

MOVIEmeter:

8% since last week why?

Company:

Toho Company suite

Guillemet:

Toyo: [telling joke] "You've never had a day off, have you?" "No." "Why? Are you indispensable?" "No. I don't want them to find out they can do without me." suite

Connexions De Film:

Referenced in Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda (1999) suite

Soundtrack:

Gondola no Uta suite

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Not just a film, but an incredible learning experience, 26 December 1998

Author: EzyRyder de Los Angeles

A quiet, but very moving film. Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a clerk who has been living a dull, unsatisfying life working in the government's offices who is diagnosed with cancer and is given one year to live. He tries to enjoy his days by picking up a former co-worker (Miki Odagiri) and taking her out on the town. She finally convinces him that this is not the way to spend the rest of his life. He soon realizes that he has a strong desire to do something with his life so that it will not have been a total waste. Therefore he begins to work in cooperation with the people... accomplishing something that nobody in the office had the nerve to do before.

I consider Ikiru to be Kurosawa's first truly excellent film. The story moves along very low-key and we gradually realize the power and emotion that is in this great film. Roger Ebert said of Ikiru that it is one of the few films that can actually change the way you look at life after watching it.

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