A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 6 wins & 2 nominations total
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- TriviaWhen Takashi Shimura rehearsed his singing of "Song of the Gondola," director Akira Kurosawa instructed him to "sing the song as if you are a stranger in a world where nobody believes you exist."
- GoofsWhen Kanji and the Novelist go to a busy, loud nightclub, the film has been reversed as evidenced by the backwards "Nippon Beer" banner in the background.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Siskel & Ebert 500th Anniversary Special (1989)
- SoundtracksJ'ai Deux Amours
(uncredited)
Music by Vincent Scotto
Lyrics by Georges Koger and Henri Varna
Performed by Josephine Baker
[Played when entering the bar with the long-faced man]
Featured review
"Ikiru" is supposedly one of Steven Spielberg's favourite films, and one can see the influence it's had on him not only in the sentimentality and the ultimate "feelgood factor" (which may be a little too extreme for some viewers, although the script never condescends), but visually, especially in the virtuoso sequence in which a reprobate leads our hero, a respectable and dull civil servant, on a whirlwind tour of Tokyo's frenzied nightlife - a masterpiece of camera placement and editing. With images throughout that will stay with you for a long time, and a terrific supporting performance by Miki Odagiri as a vivacious young "office lady", "Ikiru" is still an absolute knockout more than 50 years on.
- Butch-Higgins
- Oct 15, 2003
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,239
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,149
- Dec 29, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $112,471
- Runtime2 hours 23 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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