Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Helmed by the iconic Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru (1952) is a Japanese drama film that follows a terminally sick Tokyo bureaucrat, as he strives to find purpose in the final days of his life. Leo Tolstoy’s ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

Before Kazuo Ishiguro published a single word, let alone collected such a series of accolades that each threatens to outdo the last—the Booker Prize, a knighthood, the Nobel Prize in Literature—he was ...

OF ALL Akira Kurosawa's pictures, "Ikiru" is the one that bores most single-mindedly into the morality of his subject's life. And quite probably ours, too. After all, a movie about an office worker ...

Not long into “Living,” Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn’t come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his ...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film “Ikiru” has acquired a reputation as a corrective — “this is the one that will remind you what matters” — and reputations like that tend to flatten what is most unsettling ...

Kanji: [[life] You — just to look at you makes me feel better. It warms this — this mummy's heart of mine. And you're so kind to me. No; that's not it. You're so young, so healthy. No; that's not it ...

Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that ...