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        Ikiru
        8.3
        (1,178 votes)

        Ikiru

        1952
        Drama
        2 hr 23 min

        Overview

        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.

        Creators

        Director
        Akira Kurosawa
        Screenplay
        Shinobu Hashimoto
        Screenplay
        Hideo Oguni
        Ikiru

        Cast

        Full Cast
        Takashi Shimura
        Takashi Shimura
        Kanji Watanabe
        Haruo Tanaka
        Haruo Tanaka
        Sakai
        Nobuo Kaneko
        Nobuo Kaneko
        Mitsuo, son of Kanji
        Bokuzen Hidari
        Bokuzen Hidari
        Ohara
        Miki Odagiri
        Miki Odagiri
        Toyo
        Shinichi Himori
        Shinichi Himori
        Kimura
        Minoru Chiaki
        Minoru Chiaki
        Noguchi
        Minosuke Yamada
        Minosuke Yamada
        Subordinate Clerk Saito
        Kamatari Fujiwara
        Kamatari Fujiwara
        Sub-Section Chief Ono
        Makoto Kobori
        Makoto Kobori
        Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
        Nobuo Nakamura
        Nobuo Nakamura
        Deputy Mayor
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        Movie Details

        Status
        Released (09/10/1952)
        Original language
        Japanese
        Original title
        生きる
        Box office
        $55,240
        Country
        Production company
        ☠️Dying and death
        🇯🇵Japan
        Bureaucracy
        Age difference
        Praise
        Office
        Night life
        Sense of life
        Playground
        Obsequies
        Swing
        🚶🏻Loneliness
        Office politics
        Infatuation
        Wake
        Public works
        Bureaucrat
        Thoughts of retirement
        Terminal cancer
        City park
        Civil servant
        Monotonous life
        Accomplishments
        Office gossip
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