Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
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Drama
Ikiru.
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
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.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY
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
THE RIGHT PLACE TO PRESS PLAY
Where to watch.
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