11/15: Ikiru
[This is a contribution to the Akira Kurosawa Blog-a-Thon hosted by Film Squish.]
Kurosawa's Ikiru is concerned with a seemingly counterintuitive idea: the poetics of bureaucracy. Its hero is a bureaucrat, and its central premise boils down to this man learning that he is going to die, and in response dedicating his remaining months to becoming a better bureaucrat. Veteran actor Takashi Shimura
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