Movie

Ikiru (1952)

• NR
• October 9, 1952
• 2h 23m

• Drama

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

Overview

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.

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Writers

Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Starring

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko