Kanji Watanabe, the senior Japanese bureaucrat who is the central character in Akira Kurosawa’s movie Ikiru, learns he has terminal cancer. After decades of stamping meaningless files, he realises he has achieved nothing satisfactory in his life. In one harrowing scene, he sits in the dark while his son and daughter-in-law discuss his death, not with ... Read moreAbout the author/s Galib Mahmud Pasha Galib Mahmud Pasha is a postgraduate student at the Australian National University. He is ...
