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Film · 1952
Ikiru
2h 23mNRDirected by Akira Kurosawa
- Drama
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
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
Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe
Haruo TanakaSakai
Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen HidariOhara
Miki OdagiriToyo
Shinichi HimoriKimura
Minoru ChiakiNoguchi
Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo NakamuraDeputy Mayor
Atsushi WatanabePatient
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Release
- October 9, 1952
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- TOHO
- TMDB score
- 8.3 / 10 from 1,422 votes
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