Ikiru (1952)
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.
Rating: 8.3
Genres Drama, Foreign
Original language: ja
IMDb tt0044741
Stars
Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
Miki Odagiri as Toshiko
Nobuo Kaneko as Kawabe
Creators
Akira Kurosawa (Director)
Akira Kurosawa (Producer)
Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer)
Hideo Oguni (Writer)
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