Ikiru, which is the final film in the Kurosawa/Mifune retrospective currently showing in Dallas. What a treat to see this in a theatre.
Many (and I am one) consider this film Kurosawa’s finest. This film was made right after
Rashomonp and is a deeply moving portrait into a single man’s realization of the futility of his life and
The journey that he takes in attempting to enjoy life and his attempt to recapture his youth through another, seem to me to be truer and more realistic each time I see this film.
But the scene where the actions taken by him are examined and dismissed and praised by his colleagues has always seemed to me to be completely on the mark.