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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Aug 20, 2004
Pros: It's a Kurosawa film
Cons: It's a Kurosawa film without any samurai
Summary: In "Th
e
Royal Tenenbaums", Gene Hackman's title character is given (or says he's been given) six months to live. He takes this tragedy and turns it into an opportunity to get to know his kids again, and renew ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2010
Pros: Takashi Shimura is flawless, great score and direction, melancholic and interesting
Cons: Third act is...a little bleh.
Summary: 1952's Ikiru is supposedly one of Akira Kurosawa's biggest masterpieces. While I would say it's very good, I don't know if I'd put it up there with his best--the likes reserved for others in his filmography like Seven Samurai or Ran, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 4, 2009
Pros: Shimura is excellent, Philosophical and pensive screenplay
Cons: Last segment dragged a little
Summary: I’ve been digging into Akira Kurosawa’s movies a little lately, and this time it’s the turn of Ikiru. Although it was released in 1952, in between such big hits as Rashômon and Seven Samurai, Ikiru itself was not an instant ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 20, 2004
Pros: Important theme strongly reinforced, solid script, excellent cinematography, and very good lead performance
Cons: A bit slow and not especially emotionally involving
Summary: Ikiru was one of Akiri Kurosawa’s earlier films, being produced in 1952. Though Kurosawa was just forty-two at the time, he was already an accomplished director, having the fine film R
ashômon
already to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 5, 2003
Pros: everything
Cons: not a thing
Summary: The opening shot of the film Ikiru is an x-ray of a man named Watanabe's chest. Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) has gastric cancer, but doesn't know it yet. According to the narrator "He just drifts through life. In fact, he's barely alive." It is then ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 24, 2000
Pros: brilliant acting, imaginative writing, beautiful cinematography
Cons: it will not appeal to those raised on Hollywood schlock
Summary: Having seen other Akira Kurosawa films, I figured that "Ikiru" would be basically similar; like "The Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon", I expected Kuroswa's deft mix of cinematic technique, complex and engaging storyline, and ... read more
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