Ikiru (1952)
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
143 min
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.
- Release date
- October 9, 1952
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Budget
- $85,000
- Box office
- $55,240
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Cast
- Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
- Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
- Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
- Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
- Miki Odagiri as Toyo Odagiri, employee
- Shin'ichi 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
- Kyōko Seki as Kazue Watanabe
- Kusuo Abe as City Assemblyman
- Tomo'o Nagai as Newspaperman
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Yakuza Boss
- Daisuke Katō as Yakuza
- Hiroshi Hayashi as Yakuza
- Fuyuki Murakami as Newspaperman
- Hirayoshi Aono as Newspaperman
- Toranosuke Ogawa as Park Section Chief
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa · Director
- Akira Kurosawa · Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Writer
- Hideo Oguni · Writer
- Sōjirō Motoki · Producer
- Fumio Hayasaka · Composer
- Asakazu Nakai · Cinematographer
- Kōichi Iwashita · Editor
- Takashi Matsuyama · Production designer