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UK/Japan/Sweden – Drama – Year: 2022 – Running time: 102 mins
Languages: English
Synopsis:
With a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, via Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ and Leo Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Illych’, it is set in the London of 1953.
Bill Nighy is Rodney Williams, a civil servant diagnosed with terminal cancer who, through a chance meeting with a woman in a cafe, finds hope and a new purpose to his life.
Addresses weighty matters of life and death with a winning simplicity that is hard to resist.
Mark Kermode (Observer)
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro (based on Kurosawa’s film “Ikiru” written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni)
Main Cast:
| Bill Nighy | Williams |
| Aimee Lou Wood | Margaret Harris |
| Alex Sharp | Peter Wakeling |
| Adrian Rawlins | Middleton |
| Oliver Chris | Hart |
| Tom Burke | Sutherland |
| Michael Cochrane | Sir James |
(for full cast list, reviews and more information, see IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes)