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Ikiru

Original title: 生きる

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

8.31,376 votes19522h 23mReleased

Drama

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.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Released: 9 October 1952
Studio: TOHO
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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

Nobuo Nakamura

Deputy Mayor

Atsushi Watanabe

Patient

Isao Kimura

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Masao Shimizu

Doctor

Yūnosuke Itō

Novelist

Yoshie Minami

The Maid

Kumeko Urabe

Tatsu Watanabe

Eiko Miyoshi

Housewife

Noriko Honma

Housewife

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Bar Hostess

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