JAPANESE FILM: KUROSAWA'S "IKIRU" (1952)
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Let's try something new. I post a lot of movies on my other Meetup group, and this one happens to be a Japanese movie. Watching movies in foreign languages is a good way to improve your language skills.
I haven't seen it but it is a highly rated film from one of my favorite directors. We have seen several of his films. Frida is doing a series of Akira Kurosawa films over the coming months.
Date: Monday, December 22, 7:30
Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422
Dinner 6:00 Taqueria Guadalajara next door
305 E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Tickets: $13.00 https://thefridacinema.org/movies/ikiru/
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 98% positive rating
Trailer: https://youtu.be/geKhyNerWM8?si=6h73K8j_W-OLZIMv
Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 143 min. Release Year: 1952 Language: Japanese
Starring: Bokuzen Hidari, Haruo Tanaka, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Takashi Shimura
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. We are are closing out the December portion of our retrospective on the legendary director’s work with a brand 4K restoration of it thanks to our friends at Janus Films!
Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived twopart structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive