Ikiru
"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 for the meaning of his life.
Kanji Watanabe
Sakai
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Ohara
Toyo
Kimura
Noguchi
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Deputy Mayor
Patient
Intern
Doctor
Novelist
The Maid
Tatsu Watanabe
Housewife
Housewife
Bar Hostess
Housewife
Kazue Watanabe
City Assemblyman
Newspaperman
Yakuza Boss
Yakuza
Yakuza
Newspaperman
Newspaperman
Park Section Chief
Worker in General Affairs
Policeman
Bar Owner
Worker in Sewage Section
Pianist
Dancer
Stripper
Baseball Spectator
Civil Engineering Section Staff
Park Division Staff
Cabaret Woman
Yakuza (uncredited)
Yakuza (uncredited)
Yakuza (uncredited)
Housewife (uncredited)
City Hall Executive (uncredited)
General Manager (uncredited)
Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff (uncredited)
Road Section Receptionist (uncredited)
City Planning Receptionist (uncredited)
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)
Fire Department Staff (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Patient (uncredited)
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Director
Director of Photography
Editor
Screenplay
Screenplay
Producer
Lighting Technician
Sound Effects Editor
Set Decoration
Screenplay
Original Music Composer
Sound Recordist