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Ikiru

Ikiru

Japanese, Drama 1956 Akira Kurosawa ⏱ 2h 23m JA Not Rated ⭐ 8.301 (1,370 votes)
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-acting ~cinematography +writing +music +atmosphere +direction +editing

Summary

A japanese film that excels in music and direction but struggles with acting. 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.

Cast

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

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