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