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Ikiru (re-release)

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Theater de Lieve Vrouw
Lieve Vrouwestraat 13
3811 BP Amersfoort
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The beautiful Ikiru shows Akira Kurosawa at his most empathetic: he emphasizes life through impending death. Takashi Shimura sublimely portrays an elderly civil servant with cancer searching for meaning in his final days. Kurosawa's hushed, deeply human character study of loneliness in the face of death casts a gentle eye on what it means to live.

'Ikiru' is more than a movie title; it is also a Japanese term, which can be translated as 'living' or 'living one's life.' The terminally ill official in Ikiru asks himself how he can still give his life meaning and impact in the face of death. Ikiru was recently filmed as Living, starring Bill Nighy.

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