Film · Drama
Ikiru (1952)
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.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- October 9, 1952
- Original title
- 生きる
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
Isao KimuraIntern
Masao ShimizuDoctor
Yūnosuke ItōNovelist
Yoshie MinamiThe Maid
Kumeko UrabeTatsu Watanabe
Eiko MiyoshiHousewife
Noriko HonmaHousewife
Yatsuko Tan'amiBar Hostess
