Interview (Video): Kazuo Ishiguro

A conversation with the screenwriter of the movie Living.

Nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Living was written by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is an adaptation of the 1952 movie Ikiru, a film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Here is an interview with Ishiguro, who wrote the novel Remains of the Day.

Plot summary: Living is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.

Here is a trailer for the movie:

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