Ikiru
Kurosawa's humanist masterpiece follows a bureaucrat discovering he has terminal cancer and searching for meaning in his final days. Through mortality, purpose, legacy, and bureaucracy, it explores how to live meaningfully. The film is a meditation on death and the importance of living fully.
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