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