Ikiru

Credits and the memorable opening sequence introducing Takashi Shimura as the bureaucrat Watanabe, from Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed Ikiru, 1952.

Mournful bureacrat Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), hanging in a sakè bar on a quasi-bender because of his terminal cancer diagnosis, has just offered his spare sedatives to a hard-drinking novelist (Yunosuke Ito), who was ranting about having run out, in Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, 1952.

Lonesome Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) realizes what the audience already knows, about his stomach cancer, with an obfuscating doctor (Masao Shimizu) in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, 1952, music by Fumio Hayasaka.