Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been nominated for the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for Living. Above, Ishiguro poses for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Feb. 13, 2023, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been nominated for the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for Living. Above, Ishiguro poses for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Feb. 13, 2023, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 but moved with his family to Britain when he was 5 years old. He, of course, grew up to become one of the world’s most renowned writers in the English language, winning the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a Knighthood.
But one of his earliest and most enduring artistic influences was a late-night television broadcast of a black and white Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa called Ikiru.
Shot in Japan in the early 1950s, it’s an existential and philosophical film about an aging Tokyo bureaucrat who receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. The illness sets off an internal journey as the film’s central character examines the choices he’s made and decides to live more fully. What was for Kurosawa in part a critique of…
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