Nighy Leads Remake Of Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” – Dark Horizons

Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy will play the lead role in “Living,” an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s famed 1952 Japanese feature “Ikiru” at Number 9 Films.
The new take shifts the story to 1952 London and will follow William, a veteran civil servant who has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-World War II England.
As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning to his seemingly monot…

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