Ikiru

1952·Movie
2h 23min
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About

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

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.
Humanist DramaExistential ReflectionBureaucratic CritiqueProfound Character StudyLife-Affirming TaleMelancholy but HopefulJapanese Cinema ClassicSocially Relevant

Crew

Directed by:
Akira Kurosawa
Written by:
Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Produced by:
Sōjirō Motoki
Composed by:
Fumio Hayasaka, Ichirô Minawa

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