Ikiru

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.

• Akira KurosawaDirector
• Akira KurosawaScreenplay
• Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
• Hideo OguniScreenplay
• Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer

• Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe
• Haruo TanakaSakai
• Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji
• Bokuzen HidariOhara
• Miki OdagiriToyo
• Shinichi HimoriKimura
• Minoru ChiakiNoguchi
• Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito
• Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono
• Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
• Nobuo NakamuraDeputy Mayor
• Atsushi WatanabePatient