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"I cant afford to hate anyone. I dont have that kind of time."
Ikiru[telling a joke] :"Youve never had a day off, have you?" — Ikiru
"[telling a joke] :"Youve never had a day off, have you?" "No." "Why? Are you indispensable?" "No. I dont want them to find out they can do without me."
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Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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