Ikiru is the film Kurosawa made right before 7 Samurai. The first minute of Ikiru is a really old boring lonely bureaucrat finding out he has cancer and is about to die. He immediately goes "oh shit I wasted my whole life" and embarks on a quest to find out if he can make his life have a meaning at the very last minute, in modern Japan, 1952. Starring Takashi Shimura (the leader of the 7 Samurai).
Kurosawa says it was very loosely inspired by Tolstoy's short story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Really good Tolstoy short, but completely unrelated.
Anyway, Ikiru is basically the greatest movie about the meaning of life ever made. I'd link you to the trailer, but it's one of those old 50's trailers that's way too long and ruins the whole movie. So I'll just link to the beginning of the movie instead.
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