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Ikiru

(1952)

October 9, 1952 2h 23m
83%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Akira Kurosawa

Director

Top Billed Cast

TS

Takashi Shimura

Kanji Watanabe

HT

Haruo Tanaka

Sakai

NK

Nobuo Kaneko

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

BH

Bokuzen Hidari

Ohara

MO

Miki Odagiri

Toyo

SH

Shinichi Himori

Kimura

MC

Minoru Chiaki

Noguchi

MY

Minosuke Yamada

Subordinate Clerk Saito

KF

Kamatari Fujiwara

Sub-Section Chief Ono

MK

Makoto Kobori

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Official Trailer

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