Ikiru (1952) - (Movie Clip) It's A Mild Ulcer

Ikiru (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Stomach Belongs To...

Credits and the memorable opening sequence introducing Takashi Shimura as the bureaucrat Watanabe, from Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed Ikiru, 1952.

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.