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.
| Title | Ikiru |
|---|---|
| Year | 1952 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Country | Japan |
| Studio | TOHO |
| Cast | Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori |
| Crew | Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography), Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Editor), Sōjirō Motoki (Producer), Fumio Hayasaka (Music) |
| Keyword | dying and death, japan, bureaucracy, age difference, praise, office, night life, sense of life, playground, obsequies, swing, loneliness, office politics, infatuation, wake, public works, bureaucrat, thoughts of retirement, terminal cancer, city park, civil servant, monotonous life, accomplishments, office gossip |
| Release | Oct 09, 1952 |
| Runtime | 143 minutes |
| Quality | HD |
| IMDb | 8.31 / 10 by 1,141 users |
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