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.
| Title | Ikiru |
|---|---|
| Year | 1952 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Country | Japan |
| Studio | TOHO |
| Cast | Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori |
| Crew | Akira Kurosawa (Director), Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography), Akira Kurosawa (Editor), Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Sōjirō Motoki (Producer) |
| Keyword | dying and death, japan, bureaucracy, age difference, praise, office, night life, sense of life, playground, obsequies, swing, loneliness, office politics, black and white, infatuation, wake, public works, criterion, bureaucrat, thoughts of retirement, terminal cancer, city park, civil servant, monotonous life, accomplishments, office gossip |
| Release | Oct 09, 1952 |
| Runtime | 143 minutes |
| Quality | HD |
| IMDb | 8.30 / 10 by 1,202 users |
| Popularity | 5 |
| Budget | 0 |
| Revenue | 55,240 |
| Language | 日本語 |
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