Ikiru

Ikiru (1952)

生きる

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.

Date of release
1952-10-09
TMDB
8.3 / 10 (1409)
Runtime
2h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Akira Kurosawa

Casting

  • 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

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