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83% Critic Match
Ikiru
“A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...”
8.3 / 10• 1952• 2h 23m•NR• Japanese
Drama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Akira Kurosawa's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Ikiru is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
