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