Ikiru

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Story Analysis

A terminally ill bureaucrat's search for meaning in life

Drama · 8.3/10 · 143 min · 1952

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.

Credits

director

Akira Kurosawa
screenplay

Shinobu Hashimoto
screenplay

Hideo Oguni
screenplay

Akira Kurosawa
actor

as Kanji Watanabe

Takashi Shimura

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