Ikiru (To Live)
Friday, October 1 | 8 pmEast Building, Museum Auditorium
$5 ($3.50 Students, NCMA members, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)
(1952) Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri. (143 min.)
A meek bureaucrat smothered by numbing routine, using his rubber stamp to cancel out hope, learns he has only a short time to live. He decides to make one small difference in the world. A brilliant performance by Kurosawa’s other muse, Takashi Shimura. “One of cinema’s noblest, most humane pinnacles.”—Elliot Wilhelm, film curator
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