Ikiru poster
Director Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto

Ikiru

Drama1952

Original Title: 生きる

Tagline: A big story of a little man which will grip your soul ...

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Duration: 143 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Yoshie Minami
    The Maid
  • Takashi Shimura
    Kanji Watanabe
  • Kin Sugai
    Housewife
  • Seiji Miyaguchi
    Yakuza Boss
  • Minoru Chiaki
    Noguchi
  • Kyoko Aoyama
    Schoolgirl (uncredited)
  • Fuyuki Murakami
    Newspaperman
  • Kusuo Abe
    City Assemblyman
  • Kumeko Urabe
    Tatsu Watanabe
  • Noriko Honma
    Housewife