If Ikiru was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

Ikiru
Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
An absolute cinematic disaster.
No synopsis available. Probably for the best.
🔥 CHARRING THE SCRIPT…
Synopsis withheld out of mercy.
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Two solid hours of characters staring intensely out of rain-slicked windows. Brilliant work, Ikiru.
Watched Ikiru so you don't have to. You're welcome.
Ikiru: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
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Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Ikiru actually is?
Director clearly thought Ikiru was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
Unpopular opinion: Ikiru is the most overrated film of the decade
Look, I wanted to love Ikiru. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
The cinematography in Ikiru is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Honestly, Ikiru would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
