4K restoration of Kurosawa's compassionate character study, filmed in a style modern for the time, said to be Steven Spielberg's favorite film.

The beautiful Ikiru shows Akira Kurosawa at his most empathetic: he emphasizes life through an approaching death. Takashi Shimura sublimely plays an elderly civil servant with cancer who is searching for meaning in his last days. Kurosawa's quiet, deeply human character study about loneliness in the face of death casts a gentle glance at what it means to live. Ikiru is more than a film title, it is also a Japanese concept that can be translated as 'life' or 'living one's life'. The terminally ill civil servant in Ikiru asks himself how he can still give his life meaning and impact in the face of death.