Fancy Movie Time #22: Ikiru (1952) (Patreon)

On this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads go on a bender with a novelist and die on a snowy swing as they cover Akira Kurosawa's 1952 bureaucratic tragedy: Ikiru. Does the film's luscious cinematography and poignant insights into the nature of being make it a Fancy Feast? Or does the film's reliance on melodrama and dramatic third act turn make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: A.J. has certainly seen a lot of the hit NBC procedural The Blacklist.Next Month's Fancy Film: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)