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Ikiru
1952 · Movies · 2h 23m · Drama
bittersweet
Downer ending
Satisfying closure
Someone dies of illness
How it ends
Watanabe dies after completing a playground, leaving his colleagues to question his impact.
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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.
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Cast & Crew
Cast
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Crew
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Sōjirō Motoki
Producer
Akira Kurosawa
Director