IKIRU

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• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office, but finally decides he can make a difference through his job... After Watanabe's death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe.
• Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari, Minosuke Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori, Nobuo Kaneko, Nobuo Nakamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Isao Kimura, Masao Shimizu, Yûnosuke Itô, Kumeko Urabe, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Honma, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Kin Sugai, Yoshie Minami, Kyôko Seki, Kusuo Abe, Tomo'o Nagai, Seiji Miyaguchi, Daisuke Katô, Kan Hayashi, Fuyuki Murakami, Hirayoshi Aono, Toranosuke Ogawa, Akira Sera, Ichirô Chiba, Akira Tani, Yôyô Kojima, Toshiyuki Ichimura, Harue Kuramoto, Rasa Saya, Junpei Natsuki, Sachio Sakai, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:23
• Media Format: Movie