Ikiru (1952)

Synopsis

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 Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
• Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
• Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
• Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
• Miki Odagiri as Toyo
• Shinichi Himori as Kimura
• Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi
• Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito
• Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono
• Makoto Kobori as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

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