Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru”

 Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” could be described as the every vote counts in an election kind of film.  This film is strikingly similar to the pilot episode of the NBC show “Parks and Recreation” in which a pit needs to be filled in, in order to build a park on top of it, but the local government has trouble getting the necessary funding and public support.  This film questions what would you do with six months to live, which the main character answers by cutting through the red tape and getting a park built wear sewage used to build up.  When the main characters coworkers put the whole story of why he wanted that park built so badly together, it made the whole story worth it.