Ikiru Quotes
1952 films, Drama films, Foreign language films, Japanese films, Cancer films, Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
Top Quotes
“Akira Kurosawa”
“Ran (film)”
“Seven Samurai”
“Rashomon (film)”
“Shinichi Himori - Kimura”
“Dying is very difficult.”
“Miki Odagiri - Toyo Odagiri, employee”
“I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.”
“Wikipedia: Ikiru”
“Haruo Tanaka - Sakai”
“Bokuzen Hidari - Ohara”
“Minoru Chiaki - Noguchi”
“How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.”
“Takashi Shimura - Kanji Watanabe”
“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Ikiru”
“Kamatari Fujiwara - Sub-Section Chief Ono”
“I just can't die — I don't know what I've been living for all these years. This expensive saki is a protest against my life up to now.”
“[telling a joke] :"You've never had a day off, have you?"
"No."
"Why? Are you indispensable?"
"No. I don't want them to find out they can do without me."”
“That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!”
“I have less than a year to live. When I found that out... somehow I was drawn to you. Once when I was a child, I almost drowned. It's just like that feeling. Darkness everywhere, and nothing for me to hold onto, no matter how hard I try. There's just you.”