Will to Live (1999)
生きたい
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
- Date of release
- 1999-01-15
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
Casting
- Rentaro Mikuni — Yasukichi
- Shinobu Otake — Tokuko
- Naoko Ohtani — Yasukichi's lover
- Akira Emoto — Doctor
- Yoshiko Miyazaki — Tomoko
- Choei Takahashi
- Akaji Maro
- Hideo Kanze — Director of a hospital
- Aya Mizuno
- Masaru Baba
- Yuriko Hirooka
- Hitoshi Kusanagi
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Golden George
Will to Live is a 1999 Japanese comedy drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō starring Rentarō Mikuni and Shinobu Otake.
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