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Ikiru (1956)
"A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."
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83
Starring
Takashi Shimura
Haruo Tanaka
Nobuo Kaneko
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Watch on Criterion Channel
NR
2 hr 23 min
Mar 25th, 1956
Drama
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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.
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Theatrical Release:
March 25th, 1956
On Digital & Streaming:
October 27th, 2015
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Movie Box Office Gross:
$55,240 (Worldwide)
Original Language:
Japanese
Production Companies:
TOHO
black and white
japan
loneliness
dying and death
depressing
office
co-workers relationship
age difference
night life
bureaucracy
Cast & Crew
T
Takashi Shimura
as Kanji Watanabe
H
Haruo Tanaka
as Sakai
N
Nobuo Kaneko
as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
B
Bokuzen Hidari
as Ohara
M
Miki Odagiri
as Toyo
S
Shinichi Himori
as Kimura
A
Akira Kurosawa
Director
A
Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography
A
Akira Kurosawa
Editor
S
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
A
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
S
Sōjirō Motoki
Producer
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