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