Ikiru
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- Movie: Ikiru
- Romaji: Ikiru
- Japanese: 生きる
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Producer: Sojiro Motoki
- Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
- Release Date: March 25, 1956
- Runtime: 143 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Kanji Watanabe is a clerk in a government office who discovers that he has cancer and, at most, only a year to live. Up to this point he has lived a highly structured life, rarely varying from his routines. He has two children who offer him no comfort, and he decides he must find something to make him feel that his life has not been a total waste. Kanji's satisfaction comes in the form of a mothers' group who wish to use some abandoned property as the site for a park. His personality changes from gloom to extreme animation as he goes about making sure that the mothers are able to have their park -- a task that requires him to bypass the red tape that he has rigidly adhered to in the past.
Notes
- Related titles:
- Ikiru (TV Asahi / 2007)
Cast
- Takashi Shimura - Kanji Watanabe
- Shinichi Himori - Kimura
- Haruo Tanaka - Sakai
- Minoru Chiaki - Noguchi
- Miki Odagiri - Toyo Odagiri, employee
- Bokuzen Hidari - Ohara
- Minosuke Yamada - Subordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari Fujiwara - Sub-Section Chief Ono
- Makoto Kobori - Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
- Nobuo Kaneko - Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
- Nobuo Nakamura - Deputy Mayor
- Atsushi Watanabe - Patient
- Isao Kimura - Intern
- Masao Shimizu - Doctor
- Yunosuke Ito - Novelist
- Kumeko Urabe - Tatsu Watanabe, Kiichi's Wife
- Kin Sugai - Housewife
- Eiko Miyoshi - Housewife
- Fumiko Honma - Housewife
- Yatsuko Tanami - Bar Hostess
- Yoshie Minami - The Maid
- Kyoko Seki - Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife
- Kusuo Abe - City Assemblyman
- Tomoo Nagai - Newspaperman (as Tomo Nagai)
- Seiji Miyaguchi - Yakuza Boss
- Daisuke Kato - Yakuza
- Miki Hayashi - Second Yakuza
- Fuyuki Murakami - Newspaperman
- Hirayoshi Aono - Newspaperman
- Junpei Natsuki - Hand-Washing Cancer Patient
- Toranosuke Ogawa - Park Section Chief
- Akira Sera - Worker in General Affairs
- Ichiro Chiba - Policeman
- Akira Tani - Bar Owner
- Yoko Kajima - Worker in Sewage Section
- Haruko Toyama
- Mie - Woman in Dance Hall
- Sachio Sakai - Yakuza
- Toshiyuki Ichimura - Pianist
- Harue Kuramoto - Dancer
- Lasa Saya - Stripper
