Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
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- Drama
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.
Keywords
- depressing
- dying and death
- age difference
- loneliness
- japan
- black and white
- praise
- co-workers relationship
- office
- swing
- infatuation
- wake
- playground
- bureaucracy
- sense of life
- office politics
- night life
- terminal cancer
- obsequies
- public works
- short time to live
- bureaucrat
- thoughts of retirement
- city park
- civil servant
- monotonous life
- accomplishments
- office gossip
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 9, 1952
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO
- Cast
- Takashi Shimura,Haruo Tanaka,Nobuo Kaneko,Bokuzen Hidari,Miki Odagiri,Shinichi Himori,Minoru Chiaki,Minosuke Yamada,Kamatari Fujiwara,Makoto Koboriand 52 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Budget
- $85,000
- Revenue
- $55,240
- IMDb
- tt0044741