License to Live

License to Live (ニンゲン合格, Ningen gōkaku) is a 1998 Japanese drama film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

License to Live
Directed byKiyoshi Kurosawa
StarringHidetoshi Nishijima
Kōji Yakusho
Release date
  • 7 November 1998 (1998-11-07) (TIFF)
Running time
109 min
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

Reception

Stephen Holden at the New York Times stated that "the metaphysical humor it gleans from the situation marks Mr. Kurosawa (who is no relation to Akira Kurosawa) as a quirky, smart filmmaker."[1] The critic Tom Mes wrote that the film "strays far off the beaten path, shunning the predictability of your average celluloid tragedy to deliver genuine laughs".[2]

References

  1. Holden, Stephen (September 25, 1999). "License to Live (1998) NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS; Emerging From a Coma Into a Beckettian World". New York Times. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  2. Mes, Tom. "License to Live". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 1 August 2015.


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