Akira KurosawaDirector
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
Ikiru
- drama
09 Oct 1952
8.3
9
2h 23min
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.
