Takashi Shimura as Watanabe, the bureaucrat doomed to die from cancer, in Ikiru (1952, dir. Akira Kurosawa) “Occasionally I think of my death … then I think, how could I ever bear to take a final breath; while living a life like this, how could I leave it? There is, I feel, so much more for me to do — I keep feeling I have lived so little yet. Then I become thoughtful, but not sad. It was from such a feeling that Ikiru arose.” One of my favorite films. Thank you, liquidnight. -Kurosawa, quoted in Akira Kurosawa: Interviews [via oldhollywood]

Takashi Shimura as Watanabe, the bureaucrat doomed to die from cancer, in Ikiru (1952, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

“Occasionally I think of my death … then I think, how could I ever bear to take a final breath; while living a life like this, how could I leave it? There is, I feel, so much more for me to do — I keep feeling I have lived so little yet. Then I become thoughtful, but not sad. It was from such a feeling that Ikiru arose.”

One of my favorite films. Thank you, liquidnight.

-Kurosawa, quoted in Akira Kurosawa: Interviews

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Ikiru (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa. Thank you, theshipthatflew

Ikiru (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa. Thank you, theshipthatflew