@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-03 23:00 UTC
If Ikiru was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
1952 · Drama
Ikiru
BURN INDEX · PLATFORM AVG
LOCKED17%
COMMUNITY LEDGER · 0 ROASTS REGISTERED
SALT SHAKER · PLATFORM AVG
LOCKED23%
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
No synopsis available. Probably for the best.
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— THE DOSSIER
RELEASE DATE
1952
RUNTIME
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GENRE
Drama
PLOT SUMMARY
Synopsis withheld out of mercy.
STARRING CAST
Cast information unavailable.
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@SCREEN_SHADE2025-12-02 13:00 UTC
Two solid hours of characters staring intensely out of rain-slicked windows. Brilliant work, Ikiru.
@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2025-12-16 14:00 UTC
Watched Ikiru so you don't have to. You're welcome.
@TRAILER_TROLL2025-12-23 09:00 UTC
Ikiru: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
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r/flicks · u/BoomMicBoomer🔥 0.8k points
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.
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r/criticalkino · u/FrameByFrameFred🔥 2.1k points
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.
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r/criticalkino · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 1.0k points
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.
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