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Oct 09, 1952
143 min
Full-HD

Ikiru (1952)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

TOHO

Takashi Shimura

Kanji Watanabe

Haruo Tanaka

Sakai

Nobuo Kaneko

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Bokuzen Hidari

Ohara

Miki Odagiri

Toyo

Shinichi Himori

Kimura

Minoru Chiaki

Noguchi

Minosuke Yamada

Subordinate Clerk Saito

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