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.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: TOHO
- Keyword: dying and death, japan, bureaucracy, age difference, praise, office, night life, sense of life, playground, obsequies, swing, loneliness, office politics, infatuation, wake, public works, bureaucrat, thoughts of retirement, terminal cancer, city park, civil servant, monotonous life, accomplishments, office gossip
- Cast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori