Ikiru aka To Live (Japan , 1952)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | 100% positive rating on  Rotten Tomatoes
Release Year - 1952
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama
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Synopsis: A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.



Awards
  • Won Kinema Junpo Award - Best Film 1953
  • Won Mainichi Film Concours - Best Film 1953
  • Won  Golden Wolf  : Bucharest Film Festival
  • Won  Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin : Berlin International Film Festival
  • Nominated for Golden Bear at  Berlin International Film Festival
Lists
  • Ranked #44 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • Ranked 459th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time
  • IMDB Top 250 #141
Special Mention
  • 100% positive rating based on 30 reviews from critics at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes
  • Roger Ebert Top 100 List
  • Rated by more ~21k users on IMDb

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