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A Balasaur Score of 88 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 98%, Metacritic 92/100. Scores higher than 96% of the 648 1950s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic92/100
1,385 audience votes
Key crew
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
Stills
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Themes
dying and deathjapanbureaucracyage differencepraiseofficenight lifesense of lifeplaygroundobsequiesswingloneliness
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