Ikiru (Region B) Christopher Reeve **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet

**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet including essays by Catherine Wheatley and Kieron McCormack and notes on Old Portugal at the Ocean’s Edge by BFI curator William Fowler

to teaching in the remote East

along with archival interviews with Pakula

and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas

Ikiru (Region B) Christopher Reeve **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated bookletFeaturing a beautifully nuanced performance by Takashi Shimura as a bureaucrat diagnosed with stomach cancer, Ikiru is an intensely lyrical and moving film which explores the nature of existence and how we find meaning in our lives. Opening with a shot of an x ray, showing the main character's stomach, Ikiru tells the tale of a dedicated, downtrodden civil servant who, diagnosed with terminal cancer, learns to change his dull, unfulfilled existence,