A short entry about Ikiru (1952) (generations, infantilization, metal balls, city fathers and fatherhood)
[Lesser Kurosawa Akira. Made between Rashomon and Seven Samurai. Closest in spirit to One Wonderful Sunday (1947) or The End of Summer (1961), but heightened by the cinematography of Nakai Asakazu.] [I had never seen it before.] [City bureaucrat Watanabe Kanji (Shimura Takashi) has cancer. He is alone. He is a widower. He loves his son but they cannot t…
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