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Ikiru : Life is Brief

An eccentric novelist (Yunosuke Ito) takes Watanabe to a bar, where Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) requests an old love song.

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dolly out, dolly shot, following shot, framing, lighting, long shot, low angle, match on action, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mirror shot, music, diegetic, pan, performance, tilt, traveling shot, wipe

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"Life is Brief" in Ikiru. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, TOHO, 1952, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=4234

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