Ikiru 1952

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: If you have never seen it, you should. If you have seen it before, your admiration will only increase. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: It is a strangely fascinating and affecting film, up to a point. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Akira Kurosawa's greatest film. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There has never been a smarter, more compassionate film about imminent death. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I think this is one of the few movies that might actually be able to inspire someone to lead their life a little differently. Read more

TIME Magazine: A masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Kurosawa's eclectic style is a delight: his striking, varied compositions reflecting the old man's journey from darkness to some kind of light right until the moving finale. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Kurosawa performs a tour-de-force in keeping a dramatic thread throughout and avoiding the mawkish. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Often heavy-handed but never less than heartfelt, Ikiru (To Live) is universal in its thrust and startlingly astute in its narrative engineering. Read more