mleus
09-17-2020, 07:15 PM
In Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, a Japanese bureaucrat finds that he has six months to live, and struggles to find meaning before he is gone.
On a night of bohemian excess, he realizes quickly that this is not the answer.
https://www.facebook.com/ClassicCinemaEssentials/videos/857252997804715/
But after devoting his last days to forcing the rejuvenation of a cesspool in a poor neighborhood to a beautiful park where children may play and adults may enjoy the scenery, he revisits the song Gondola No Uta ("Life is Brief') and dies content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLtGRl_WE4
On a night of bohemian excess, he realizes quickly that this is not the answer.
https://www.facebook.com/ClassicCinemaEssentials/videos/857252997804715/
But after devoting his last days to forcing the rejuvenation of a cesspool in a poor neighborhood to a beautiful park where children may play and adults may enjoy the scenery, he revisits the song Gondola No Uta ("Life is Brief') and dies content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLtGRl_WE4