Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
8.3(1,373) 1952-10-09 143 minDrama
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.
ScreenplayShinobu Hashimoto
ScreenplayAkira Kurosawa
ProducerSōjirō Motoki
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
ScreenplayHideo Oguni
Original Music ComposerFumio Hayasaka
Cast & characters
Takashi Shimura
as Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka
as Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
as Ohara
Miki Odagiri
as Toyo
Shinichi Himori
as Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
as Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
as Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
as Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe
as Patient
Isao Kimura
as Intern
Masao Shimizu
as Doctor
Yūnosuke Itō
as Novelist
Yoshie Minami
as The Maid
Kumeko Urabe
as Tatsu Watanabe
Eiko Miyoshi
as Housewife
Noriko Honma
as Housewife
Yatsuko Tan'ami
as Bar Hostess
Kin Sugai
as Housewife
Kyôko Seki
as Kazue Watanabe
Kusuo Abe
as City Assemblyman
Tomo'o Nagai
as Newspaperman
