Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri

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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 & Crew

Director: Akira KurosawaWriters: Hideo Oguni, Shinobu HashimotoProducer: Sōjirō Motoki

Takashi Shimura

as Kanji Watanabe

Haruo Tanaka

as Sakai

Nobuo Kaneko

as Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Bokuzen Hidari

as Ohara

Miki Odagiri

as Toyo

Shinichi Himori

as Kimura

Minoru Chiaki

as Noguchi

Minosuke Yamada

as Subordinate Clerk Saito

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