I watched a movie called Ikiru last night. It was really
. It's in black and white and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. Some people consider it to be Kurosawa's greatest film. It
out in Japan in the 1950s. It's about
old man, Kanji Watanabe,
learns he has terminal cancer. He realizes that he hasn't done anything meaningful in his life. In the
, 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
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
, I was really
it.