Ikiru (1952)
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.
- Released
- 1952-10-09
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- TMDB rating
- 8.3/10 from 1420 votes
Cast
- Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
- Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
- Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
- Miki Odagiri as Toyo
- Shinichi Himori as Kimura
- Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi
- Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono
- Makoto Kobori as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
- Nobuo Nakamura as Deputy Mayor
- Atsushi Watanabe as Patient