Ikiru

Goated Directors Cycle #13 **Akira Kurosawa #1 ** To live is truly a beautiful thing... "How beautiful! Truly Beautiful. A sunset. I don't think I've really looked at one in 30 years. But I haven't got the time for this now." I barely have the words. It's such a simple, yet beautiful story. Watanabe's voice and performance was just so heartbreaking in his every moment. Whenever he sung his song, I couldn't help but start sobbing. It isn't fair how beautiful and sad the ending scene with him on the swing, accepting his life and death, is. I knew the swing scene was coming, but nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared me for it. This film would otherwise be a 4.5, but the ending alone makes it a 5. "I can't afford to hate people. I haven't got that kind of time."