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Ikiru

2015

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Movie

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143 min

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Drama

Queue Score

94%

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Community

4,249

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LOVE

53%

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LIKE

42%

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MEH

3%

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DISLIKE

2%

94%

Queue Score

Top Reviews

“He is simply passing time, not truly living. He is merely killing time.”
"I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to waste my life."
I'm so sick of seeing wasted potential in films over and over again. This had so much potential it was literally going to be one of my-

1y

The urge to squeeze out all of what’s left from the very last bit of your life. To want it to make sense. To want it to mean something. To want to live.
This is my first and forever favorite Kurosawa movie.

2y

For this to come out when it did bro, insane

All his efforts, all the changes he made, only to inspire his coworkers for one night only on his memorial
Everyone immediately went back to their normal ways, literally hiding behind the books avoiding confrontation

Swing set scene😭

28d

Recent Reviews

It came to me at the right time.

9d

this is how i win. 🛝

53d

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