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Set in 1953 England, Bill Nighy is a terminally ill widower making a last-ditch effort to turn an ordinary life into an extraordinary one.

With ’Living,’ gay director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro have met the challenge of creating an English version of Akira Kurosawa’s "Ikiru."

With ’Living,’ gay director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro have met the challenge of creating an English version of Akira Kurosawa’s "Ikiru."

With ’Living,’ gay director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro have met the challenge of creating an English version of Akira Kurosawa’s "Ikiru."

With ’Living,’ gay director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro have met the challenge of creating an English version of Akira Kurosawa’s "Ikiru."

Oliver Hermanus’ Living, a faithful remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, stars Bill Nighy as a terminally ill repressed bureaucrat who realizes its time to rage against the dying of the light.

Nighy is a practical lock for an Academy Award nomination in what will be a crowded field.

It's probably not fair, this season especially, to recoil at the remaking of a classic.

Exquisitely directed by Oliver Hermanus from a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, this English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 'Ikiru' finds fresh depths in a classic.

Writer Kazuo Ishiguro and director Oliver Hermanus want a younger generation to take the lessons of the film "and give them new energy.”