Ikiru (1952)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 143 min · Drama
78.2 TOPICAL score · #427 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Ikiru (1952, directed by Akira Kurosawa) has a TOPICAL score of 78.2 - ranked 427 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on audience and critics, and lowest on awards. Critics: 98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.8/10 critics' average · Metacritic 92. Audiences: TMDB 8.3/10 (1,410 ratings) · IMDb 8.3/10. Wikipedia covers it in 45 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.8/10 critics' average · Metacritic 92
- AudienceTMDB 8.3/10 (1,410 ratings) · IMDb 8.3/10
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 45 languages
- Still read28,119 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Takashi Shimura (actor #188), Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari
“It won awards for Best Film at the Kinema Junpo and Mainichi Film Awards and is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10