Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by TOHO
A profound meditation on mortality and the search for meaning in a life of quiet desperation, where a dying bureaucrat discovers redemption through small acts of creation.
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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Dying And DeathJapanBureaucracyAge DifferencePraiseOfficeNight LifeSense Of LifePlaygroundObsequiesSwingLonelinessOffice PoliticsBlack And WhiteCo-workers RelationshipInfatuationWakePublic WorksBureaucratThoughts Of RetirementTerminal CancerCity ParkCivil ServantMonotonous LifeAccomplishmentsOffice GossipDepressing
Essence
Ensemble
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
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