Akira Kurosawa, 1952.
On Wikipedia: Ikiru
On Kanopy: Ikiru
A bureaucrat living a life of drudgery decides to make a change when he gets bad news at the doctor's office.
I was tickled to realize there was this whole other side to Kurosawa, who I thought of as the Master of the Samurai Film. It opened a whole new world to me.
I love the scene of the old man rocking slowly by himself on a swing in a snowy playground, humming a song from his childhood.
(JTS3, 2/27/2020)
