Ikiru (#221) USED Summer Camps directed by Curtis Hanson ("L

directed by Curtis Hanson ("L

Vincent Colombe

She keeps her boyfriend’s death a secret

But when she rises from the dead to seduce him

Ikiru (#221) USED Summer Camps directed by Curtis Hanson ("LOne of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionateaffirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived twopart structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to