Watch NowIkiru (1952)
PG
30/04/1958 (GB)
Drama
2h 23m
- 83% (1191 votes)
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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.
- Akira KurosawaDirector, Screenplay
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
Original Title
生きる
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Revenue
$55,240
Keywords
- dying and death
- japan
- bureaucracy
- age difference
- praise
- office
- night life
- sense of life
- playground
- obsequies
- swing
- loneliness
- office politics
- infatuation
- wake
- public works
- bureaucrat
- thoughts of retirement
- terminal cancer
- city park
- civil servant
- monotonous life
- accomplishments
- office gossip
Top Billed 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
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