Ikiru

March. 25,1956      
Rating:
8.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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Reviews

Platicsco
1956/03/25

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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BeSummers
1956/03/26

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

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InformationRap
1956/03/27

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Gurlyndrobb
1956/03/28

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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