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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

4,206

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LOVE

52%

👍

LIKE

42%

😐

MEH

4%

👎

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

god help me I want to live

298d

Recent Reviews

this is how i win. 🛝

6d

One of those films that sticks with you forever

64d

If people aren’t doing this at my funeral I’m bombing everyone

74d

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