Join us for our next Film in the Gallery!

This month, we will be screening Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. A tough but enriching look at the last days of a man who is dying of stomach cancer, Ikiru brings together the Japanese master with one of his frequent on-screen collaborators, Takashi Shimura, in career-high marks for both the director and actor. Partially inspired by Tolstoy’s seminal The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ikiru finds beauty in its search of purpose in ways which are unique within the Kurosawa canon.