How would you spend your last remaining days?

What if your doctor told you you only had a short time left to live? How would you spend your final days? That's the quandary facing a Japanese bureaucrat in "Ikiru (To Live)" (1952; 143 minutes), another masterwork directed by Akira Kurosawa, which is next on the CineVerse schedule for August 31.

This film continues our exploration of the works of Kurosawa. We'll continue to watch a different film from this director once a month over the next few months.

Note: Due to the long runtime of this film, we will need to start it promptly at 7 p.m. and our discussion may go slightly past 10 p.m.