Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Genre: Drama
Released: 1952
Duration: 143 min
Rating: 8.312

1952 · 143 min

Drama

★ 8.3

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Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay Hideo Oguni
Director of Photography Asakazu Nakai

Cast

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

Crew

Director — Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay — Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay — Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay — Hideo Oguni
Director of Photography — Asakazu Nakai

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Intermission

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