Ikiru

About Ikiru

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.

Characters

Takashi ShimuraKanji Watanabe

Haruo TanakaSakai

Nobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji

Bokuzen HidariOhara

Miki OdagiriToyo

Shinichi HimoriKimura

Minoru ChiakiNoguchi

Minosuke YamadaSubordinate Clerk Saito

Kamatari FujiwaraSub-Section Chief Ono

Makoto KoboriKiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Nobuo NakamuraDeputy Mayor

Atsushi WatanabePatient

Isao KimuraIntern

Masao ShimizuDoctor

Yūnosuke ItōNovelist

Yoshie MinamiThe Maid

Kumeko UrabeTatsu Watanabe

Eiko MiyoshiHousewife

Noriko HonmaHousewife

Yatsuko Tan'amiBar Hostess

Kin SugaiHousewife

Kyôko SekiKazue Watanabe

Kusuo AbeCity Assemblyman

Tomo'o NagaiNewspaperman

Director

Akira KurosawaDirector