MOVIE

Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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...

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.

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… + more

Original Title

生きる

Release Date

1952-10-09

Year

1952

Duration

2h 23m

Status

Released

Score

8.30

Genres

Drama

Production

TOHO

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