Ikiru

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.

2h 23m1952NRTMDb 8.3

Japanese

Crew and Cast

Storyline

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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Info

Original title: 生きる
Status: Released
Released: 9 October 1952
Runtime: 2h 23m
Rating: NR
TMDB score: 8.3 / 10 (1,410 votes)

Production

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Studios: TOHO
Countries: Japan

Box Office

Budget: $85,000.0
Revenue: $55,240.0
Profit: $29,760.0 loss
Return: 0.6×

Languages

Original: Japanese
Spoken: Japanese