Ikiru
1952, Film, 143 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 86
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
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.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cast
- Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
- Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
- Shin'ichi Himori as Kimura
- Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
- Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi
- Miki Odagiri as Toyo Odagiri, employee
- Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
- Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono
- Makoto Kobori as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
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