Ikiru 1952
2 h 23 min · Drama
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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.
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Cast
- Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe
- Haruo TanakaSakai
- Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji
- Bokuzen HidariOhara
- Miki OdagiriToyo
- Shinichi HimoriKimura
- Minoru ChiakiNoguchi
- Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono
- Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
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