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Ikiru

Release Date:March 25, 1956

Running Time:143 min

Genres:Drama

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Cast

Takashi Shimura Haruo Tanaka Nobuo Kaneko Bokuzen Hidari Miki Odagiri Shinichi Himori Minoru Chiaki Minosuke Yamada Kamatari Fujiwara Makoto Kobori Nobuo Nakamura Atsushi Watanabe

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Synopsis

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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