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