Ikiru

生きる

1952

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

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Popularity

3.1

Duration

143 min / 2 hour 23 min

Budget

-

Fees in the world

$55 240

In collections

190

Release date

1952.10.09

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

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Shinichi Himori

Minosuke Yamada

Subordinate Clerk Saito

Kamatari Fujiwara

Sub-Section Chief Ono

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Atsushi Watanabe

Yatsuko Tan'ami

City Assemblyman

Seiji Miyaguchi

Hiroshi Hayashi

Fuyuki Murakami

Toranosuke Ogawa

Park Section Chief

Worker in General Affairs

Worker in Sewage Section

Toshiyuki Ichimura

Baseball Spectator

Civil Engineering Section Staff

Keiichirō Katsumoto

Park Division Staff

Yakuza (uncredited)

Shōichi Hirose

Yakuza (uncredited)

Yakuza (uncredited)

Housewife (uncredited)

City Hall Executive (uncredited)

General Manager (uncredited)

Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)

Takeo Nagashima

Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff (uncredited)

Road Section Receptionist (uncredited)

City Planning Receptionist (uncredited)

Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai

Fire Department Staff (uncredited)

Tsuneo Katagiri

Patient (uncredited)

Hiroshi Koizumi

Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)

Jun'ichirō Mukai

Sōjirō Motoki

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

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