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Ikiru

Original title: 生きる

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

  • Movie
  • 1952
  • NR
  • 2h 23m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.3

TMDB audience rating
8.3 out of 10 from 1,424 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Takashi Shimura

    Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe

  • Haruo Tanaka

    Haruo TanakaSakai

  • Nobuo Kaneko

    Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji

  • Bokuzen Hidari

    Bokuzen HidariOhara

  • Miki Odagiri

    Miki OdagiriToyo

  • Shinichi Himori

    Shinichi HimoriKimura

  • Minoru Chiaki

    Minoru ChiakiNoguchi

  • Minosuke Yamada

    Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito

  • Kamatari Fujiwara

    Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono

  • Makoto Kobori

    Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

  • Nobuo Nakamura

    Nobuo NakamuraDeputy Mayor

  • Atsushi Watanabe

    Atsushi WatanabePatient

  • Isao Kimura

    Isao KimuraIntern

  • Masao Shimizu

    Masao ShimizuDoctor

  • Yūnosuke Itō

    Yūnosuke ItōNovelist

  • Yoshie Minami

    Yoshie MinamiThe Maid

  • Kumeko Urabe

    Kumeko UrabeTatsu Watanabe

  • Eiko Miyoshi

    Eiko MiyoshiHousewife

Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni
Music
Fumio Hayasaka
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai