Dersu Uzala

Ikiru felt like the work of an old man looking back on a life wasted. Dersu Uzala feels like the work of an old man who knows his time is coming to a close soon. His efforts to find independent financing had ended with the financial failure of Dodes’ka-den. No one in the Japanese film industry wanted to fund him. He had broken professionally with his main star of the previous twenty years. He attempted suicide, cutting his wrists and neck. And then the Soviet Union, through the tyranny’s cin...