“The human rights of those who have difficulties laughing due to illness or other reasons must not be undermined,” Satoru Ishiguro of Kensei Club told the plenary session on July 5.
Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (To Live) begins with an X-ray photo of the central character’s cancer-ridden stomach, a man described by the narrator (an uncredited Kurosawa) as someone “drifting through ...