Ikiru is a movie directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1952 and inspired by the book The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. The movie features Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin’ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, and others.
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Ikiru is a film that tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, an aging official who’s been diagnosed with stomach cancer, as he searches for purpose in his remaining days. The film is structured in a unique two-part format, and shot with a clear and sensitive humanistic perspective, it offers a multi-layered examination of what it means to be alive.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1952
Minutes
143
Movie Rate
8.30
Source: IMDb
Year
1886
Pages
86
Book Rate
8.18
S: Goodreads
Book
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Original title: Smert Ivana Ilyicha
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Country: Russia
First published in: 1886
Length: 86 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Bernard Rose
Movie by Oliver Hermanus
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