Ikiru, an Uncommon card

Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Arts
ATK: 74
DEF: 82
Power: 156
Wikipedia reads a year: 180,000

Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.

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Ikiru quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Ikiru card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
The ______ was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Answer
screenplay. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. From the Ikiru article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Ikiru is a ____ Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
Answer
1950s. Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. From the Ikiru article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gangsta rap. Gangsta rap 83 · Faridabad 80 · Martin of Tours 77 · Ikiru 74 ATK in WikiCards.

In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.

The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning.
The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
The film's major themes include learning how to live, the inefficiency of bureaucracy, and decaying family life in Japan, which have been the subject of analysis by academics and critics.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ikiru article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.

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