Will to Live (生きたい, Ikitai) is a 1999 Japanese comedy drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō starring Rentarō Mikuni and Shinobu Otake.
[1][2] Yasukichi visits Mount Kamuriki where, according to the ubasute legend, in the past old people were taken by their children and left to die.
Later, he attends a bar run by a woman with whom he had an affair years ago after the death of his wife.
Lying on the pavement, he is run over by a man on a bicycle, who turns out to be a doctor and takes him to the hospital.
The book's story, about 70-year-old widow Okoma making preparations to be taken to Mount Kamuriki by her eldest son, is told in interspersed black-and-white sequences.