Ikiru
生きる
Release: 1952-10-09
·Runtime: 143m
·★ 8.3
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Noriko Honma
as Housewife
Takuzō Kumagai
as Fire Department Staff (uncredited)
Yatsuko Tan'ami
as Bar Hostess
Kin Sugai
as Housewife
Kusuo Abe
as City Assemblyman
Haruo Suzuki
as Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)
Shigeo Katō
as (uncredited)
Minoru Chiaki
as Noguchi
Isao Kimura
as Intern
Daisuke Katō
as Yakuza
Fuyuki Murakami
as Newspaperman
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Sub-Section Chief Ono
Sachio Sakai
as Yakuza (uncredited)
Shōichi Hirose
as Yakuza (uncredited)
Yoshie Minami
as The Maid
Eiko Miyoshi
as Housewife
Toranosuke Ogawa
as Park Section Chief
Kumeko Urabe
as Tatsu Watanabe
Kyôko Seki
as Kazue Watanabe
Kyoko Aoyama
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Nobuo Kaneko
as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Miki Odagiri
as Toyo
Minosuke Yamada
as Subordinate Clerk Saito
Yūnosuke Itō
as Novelist
Nobuo Nakamura
as Deputy Mayor
Masao Shimizu
as Doctor
Taizō Fukami
as Baseball Spectator
Keiichirō Katsumoto
as Park Division Staff
Keiji Sakakida
as Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)
Takashi Shimura
as Kanji Watanabe
Hiroshi Hayashi
as Yakuza
Bokuzen Hidari
as Ohara
Makoto Kobori
as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Atsushi Watanabe
as Patient
Hiroshi Koizumi
as Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Seiji Miyaguchi
as Yakuza Boss
Hirayoshi Aono
as Newspaperman
Harue Kuramoto
as Dancer
Sōjirō Motoki
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Shinichi Himori
as Kimura
Tomo'o Nagai
as Newspaperman
Toshiyuki Ichimura
as Pianist
Haruo Tanaka
as Sakai
