Film
Ikiru
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Perhaps Akira Kurosawa’s most touchingly humanist work, this poignant masterpiece follows a lonely pencil-pushing Tokyo bureaucrat who learns he has only a short while left to live and embarks on a transformative search for meaning. What plays out is one of cinema’s most moving reflections on mortality, graced with an exquisite, indelible final image.
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