Ikiru - Wantanabe & The Revich & Shatte Theory

Introduction

Each time you perform the survey of major figures in the art and culture in Japan; with the question of what national film after World War I has shocked, it is the movie "Ikiru (Living)" Kurosawa that more often appears to head in this relation, sometimes standing even in front of the other most famous film "Seven Samurai". The key of the excitement is in the song "Gondola no Uta" sung by the lead actor, Takashi Shimura throughout the film (Reivich, Shatte, p. 1-352). This paper focuses on the application of the Reivich and Shatte theory to one of the characters from the movie. The character that has been selected from the movie for this paper is Kanji Watanabe.

Discussion

The movie begins by showing an x-ray of the stomach of the protagonist Kanji Watanabe. His name is one of the most common in Japan and he turns out the head of "Citizen" of any municipality. The X-rays show that he has cancer, something about what is and is not Watanabe, and how the office. There he sits - for 30 years. Every day is like the other (Reivich, Shatte, p. 1-352). Each gesture is like the other. It complaints come in, and he looks at her briefly, pressed a stamp on the papers and puts them on one of the piles on his desk. The others do nothing else in his department.

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) released in 1952 between Rashomon (1950) and The Seven Samurai (1954), among other things this film about a city official conducting a complaints body and must learn one day that he terminally ill with stomach cancer and live only to a maximum of six months has. Kanji Watanabe, excellently played by Takashi Shimura (1950-1982), one of the most famous Japanese actors who have long since abandoned, to make suggestions for changes in the bureaucracy. There is a deadly boredom in the premises of the appeal body, and the only thing Watanabe and most other keeps them alive is their ambition to assert their place there. The complaints of the population but are bureaucratic prepared quantities appropriate to the filing - and then vanished (Ebert, p. n.d).

The head of the civil section of the city council, Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) worked for 30 years as an official copy without being absent for a single day. But one day receives an unexpected surprise, stomach cancer. Unfortunately, it takes to the streets to get drunk from bar to bar, wondering what that was exactly his life. Kenji Watanabe is a public official bureaucracy in post-war Japan has been consumed by his work monotonous and empty. Day after day, does nothing to get rid of the complaints of citizens, with excuses that are already part of the same routine. One day, this middle-aged man, whose only appreciate people close by money or because some day I will, receives the news that he is a year old, because of a stomach cancer. In the course ...