Ikiru

生きる

1952·143'

Akira Kurosawa

Drama

Japanese

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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Cast

Takashi Shimura Kanji Watanabe Haruo Tanaka Sakai Nobuo Kaneko Mitsuo, son of Kanji Bokuzen Hidari Ohara Miki Odagiri Toyo Shinichi Himori Kimura Minoru Chiaki Noguchi Minosuke Yamada Subordinate Clerk Saito Kamatari Fujiwara Sub-Section Chief Ono Makoto Kobori Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother Nobuo Nakamura Deputy Mayor Atsushi Watanabe Patient