Living

An English-language adaptation of the script of Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s, Living is every bit as moving as the original.
Bill Nighy plays a buttoned-up bureaucrat named Williams in 1953 London. We meet him on the same day that Peter Wakeling starts working in his office filled with stacks of paper and a policy of red tape. Williams is soft-spoken and particular, a creature of such habit that he has become defined by his routine instead of his emotions. This changes when he receives a terminal diagnosis, spinning off his axis. He first endeavors to live life in the short time he can, meeting a barfly named Sutherland, with whom he has a boozy night that ends in an emotional song. He's then drawn to the only woman in his office, Ms. Harris, thinking she can show him the value of life before he's unable to spend it. He learns what really matters is the influence we have on others and what we leave behind.