Started watching Akira Kurosawa movies the last couple of days. 七人の侍 (Seven Samurai) was a really cool story about a poor farming village that hires seven rag-tag samurai to keep bandits from stealing their rice harvest and starving them, but 生きる (Ikiru --- To Live) was truly amazing. The story of a rich long time bureaucrat paper pusher who finds out he has stomach cancer and has wasted his life and is determined to fight to live his last months.
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Can't wait to watch more of Kurosawa's work.