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Ikiru

Original title: 生きる

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

1952 · NR · 2h 23m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.3

TMDB audience score
1,425 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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 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

  • Isao Kimura
    Intern

  • Masao Shimizu
    Doctor

  • Yūnosuke Itō
    Novelist

  • Yoshie Minami
    The Maid

  • Kumeko Urabe
    Tatsu Watanabe

  • Eiko Miyoshi
    Housewife