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Ikiru (1952) - (Movie Clip) There Seems To Be A Deeper Issue

Mournful bureacrat Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), hanging in a sakè bar on a quasi-bender because of his terminal cancer diagnosis, has just offered his spare sedatives to a hard-drinking novelist (Yunosuke Ito), who was ranting about having run out, in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, 1952.

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