Ikiru

8.3
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 143 min
  • Premiere: 1952. October 9.

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.

Discover

Takashi Shimura

Kanji Watanabe

Nobuo Kaneko

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Minosuke Yamada

Subordinate Clerk Saito

Kamatari Fujiwara

Sub-Section Chief Ono

Makoto Kobori

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Nobuo Nakamura

Deputy Mayor

Isao Kimura

Intern

Yūnosuke Itō

Novelist

Yoshie Minami

The Maid

Kumeko Urabe

Tatsu Watanabe

Eiko Miyoshi

Housewife

Noriko Honma

Housewife

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Bar Hostess

Kin Sugai

Housewife

Kyôko Seki

Kazue Watanabe

Kusuo Abe

City Assemblyman

Tomo'o Nagai

Newspaperman

Seiji Miyaguchi

Yakuza Boss

Fuyuki Murakami

Newspaperman

Hirayoshi Aono

Newspaperman

Toranosuke Ogawa

Park Section Chief

Akira Sera

Worker in General Affairs

Ichirō Chiba

Policeman

Akira Tani

Bar Owner

Yōyō Kojima

Worker in Sewage Section

Rasa Saya

Stripper

Taizō Fukami

Baseball Spectator

Tateo Kawasaki

Civil Engineering Section Staff

Keiichirō Katsumoto

Park Division Staff

Haruko Toyama

Cabaret Woman

Sachio Sakai

Yakuza (uncredited)

Shōichi Hirose

Yakuza (uncredited)

Kôji Uno

Yakuza (uncredited)

Yaeko Izumo

Housewife (uncredited)

Jirô Mitsuaki

City Hall Executive (uncredited)

Sôkichi Maki

General Manager (uncredited)

Haruo Suzuki

Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)

Takeo Nagashima

(uncredited)

Kazuo Imai

(uncredited)

Shigeo Katō

(uncredited)

Hiroshi Akitsu

Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff (uncredited)

Ippei Kawagoe

Road Section Receptionist (uncredited)

Mitsuo Tsuda

City Planning Receptionist (uncredited)

Keiji Sakakida

Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai

Fire Department Staff (uncredited)

Tsuneo Katagiri

(uncredited)

Junpei Natsuki

Patient (uncredited)

Hiroshi Koizumi

Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)

Jun'ichirō Mukai

(uncredited)

Sōjirō Motoki

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Kyoko Aoyama

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Art

Akio Nojima

Set Decoration

Camera

Asakazu Nakai

Director of Photography

Directing

Akira Kurosawa

Director

Editing

Lighting

Shinji Kojima

Lighting Technician

Production

Sound

Ichirô Minawa

Sound Effects Editor

Fumio Hayasaka

Original Music Composer

Writing

Akira Kurosawa

Screenplay

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay

Hideo Oguni

Screenplay

Art

Akio Nojima

Set Decoration

Camera

Asakazu Nakai

Director of Photography

Directing

Akira Kurosawa

Director

Editing

Lighting

Shinji Kojima

Lighting Technician

Production

Sound

Ichirô Minawa

Sound Effects Editor

Fumio Hayasaka

Original Music Composer

Writing

Akira Kurosawa

Screenplay

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay

Hideo Oguni

Screenplay