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Ikiru (1952)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
“A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...”
Drama · 2h 23m
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.
Cast
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
- Director of Photography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Original Music Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Sōjirō Motoki
Details
- Original title
- 生きる
- Release date
- 1952-10-09
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO
- Budget
- $85,000
- Box office
- $55,240