Ikiru (1952)
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul ...
Starring Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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.
Runtime: 143 min.
Rating: 8.4
DVD
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan
Genres: Drama
Keywords: bureaucracy,japan,age difference,bar,office,night life,sense of life,playground,obsequies,swing,loneliness,infatuation,bureaucrat
Cast
Kanji Watanabe
Sakai
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Ohara
Toyo
Kimura
Noguchi
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Deputy Mayor
Patient
Intern
Doctor
Novelist
The Maid
Tatsu Watanabe
Housewife
Housewife
Bar Hostess
Housewife
Kazue Watanabe
City Assemblyman
Newspaperman
Yakuza Boss
Yakuza
Yakuza
Newspaperman
Newspaperman
Park Section Chief
Worker in General Affairs
Policeman
Bar Owner
Worker in Sewage Section
Pianist
Dancer
Stripper
Hand-Washing Cancer Patient
Yakuza
Baseball spectator
Civil Engineering Section Staff
Park Division staff
Cabaret Woman
Yakuza
Yakuza
Houswife
City Hall Executive
General Manager
Sanitation Division Receptionist
Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff
Road Section Receptionist
City Planning Receptionist
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist
Fire department staff
Nurse
Jazz Bar Guest
Narrator
Schoolgirl