Ikiru - Criterion Collection

Rating:
Summary: I'll keep this short....It's BRILLIANT!
Review: There's no denying it - I bought this movie on a blind purchase and liked it immediately. Some movies tend to mature in my mind and I like them over a period of weeks or even months (took me years to like Amadeus) but I'm afraid that "IKIRU" is beautiful from beginning to end.

One of the best things of the movie is the fact that it doesn't want to be a tearjerker. It doesn't try to make us cry and those who would cry at the end will not feel manipulated into it. This is better than Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", a movie that I really admire.

This is a movie everyone should watch because it would make you want to savour life.

Simple as that.