Ikiru

8.3 1952 Akira Kurosawa 2h 23m
Drama
Ikiru

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.

Cast

Takashi Shimura Takashi Shimura Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka Haruo Tanaka Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko Nobuo Kaneko Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari Bokuzen Hidari Ohara
Miki Odagiri Miki Odagiri Toyo
Shinichi Himori Shinichi Himori Kimura
Minoru Chiaki Minoru Chiaki Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada Minosuke Yamada Subordinate Clerk Saito

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Double Feature Pairings

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