“A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...”
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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Mitsuo, son of Kanji
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Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
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Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
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Patient
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Masao Shimizu
Doctor
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Moviely has 26 free Ikiru cinematic wallpapers available to browse, preview in Mac Mode, and download.
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Ikiru released in 1952. Moviely hosts cinematic wallpapers captured from the movie's official backdrop imagery.
Ikiru is categorized as Drama.
Akira Kurosawa directed Ikiru.
Ikiru stars Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, and more.
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