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Ikiru
First aired on Oct 9, 1952
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Genres: Drama

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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Takashi Shimura | Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka | Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko | Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari | Ohara
Miki Odagiri | Toyo
Shinichi Himori | Kimura
Featured Crew
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Akira Kurosawa | Director
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Asakazu Nakai | Director of Photography
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Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay
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Akira Kurosawa | Editor
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Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay
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Sōjirō Motoki | Producer