"Living," a remake set in London of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 classic "Ikiru," has been nominated for best-adapted screenplay and actor in a leading role at the upcoming Academy Awards in Los Angeles.For British author Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel-Prize winner born in Nagasaki, writing the adaptation meant delving into what it means to be British, while remaining faithful to the original storyline about a local Japanese official who desperately searches for life's true meaning after being diagnosed with a terminal illness."What was very important to me was this study of the English gentleman. A cert…READ FULL ARTICLE
