Ikiru

Oct 9, 1952

2h 23m

★ 8.3

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TOHO

Ikiru Trailers

Cast

Kanji Watanabe

Takashi Shimura

Sakai

Haruo Tanaka

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Nobuo Kaneko

Ohara

Bokuzen Hidari

Toyo

Miki Odagiri

Kimura

Shinichi Himori

Noguchi

Minoru Chiaki

Subordinate Clerk Saito

Minosuke Yamada

Sub-Section Chief Ono

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Makoto Kobori

Deputy Mayor

Nobuo Nakamura

Patient

Atsushi Watanabe

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