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.
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Cast
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Hirayoshi Aono
Newspaperman
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Sōjirō Motoki
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Tomo'o Nagai
Newspaperman
Taizō Fukami
Baseball Spectator
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Haruo Suzuki
Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)
Shigeo Katō
(uncredited)
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Isao Kimura
Intern
Toshiyuki Ichimura
Pianist
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Toranosuke Ogawa
Park Section Chief
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Park Division Staff
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Noriko Honma
Housewife
Hiroshi Hayashi
Yakuza
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Kyôko Seki
Kazue Watanabe
Fuyuki Murakami
Newspaperman
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss
Harue Kuramoto
Dancer
Takuzō Kumagai
Fire Department Staff (uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Kin Sugai
Housewife