Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Genre: Drama
Released: 1952-10-09
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

1952NR2h 23mMovieStreaming now

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.

Drama
Dying And Death
Japan
Bureaucracy
Age Difference
Praise
Office
Night Life
Sense Of Life

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Cast

Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe
Haruo TanakaSakai
Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen HidariOhara
Miki OdagiriToyo
Shinichi HimoriKimura
Minoru ChiakiNoguchi
Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo NakamuraDeputy Mayor
Atsushi WatanabePatient
Isao KimuraIntern
Masao ShimizuDoctor

Details

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Release date: October 9, 1952
Runtime: 2h 23m
Budget: $85K
Box office: $55.2K worldwide
Original language: Japanese
Studios: TOHO

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Platform	Score	Points
IMDb104K votes	8.3	9 pts
Rotten Tomatoes	98%	10 pts
Metacritic	92	10 pts
Letterboxd	not available	skipped

Platform	Score	Points
IMDb104K votes	8.3	9 pts
Rotten Tomatoes	98%	10 pts
Metacritic	92	10 pts
Letterboxd	not available	skipped