watched a movie called Ikiru last night. It was really
moving
. It's in black and white and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. Some people consider it to be Kurosawa's greatest film. It
starts
out in Japan in the 1950s. It's about
who
old man, Kanji Watanabe,
this
learns he has terminal cancer. He realizes that he hasn't done anything meaningful in his life. In the
beginning
, he is working in a boring government job, the same one he has had for thirty years. He doesn't really have close friends, and his family doesn't care about him. It was
really
depressing. But after he learns he's going to die, he leaves his job and builds a children's playground. The film started out kind of slow, but by the
end
, I was really
into
it.