Six months
Six months
Six months
Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
10/9/1952Runtime
143 minsGenres
Overview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
JapaneseBudget
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$55,240Homepage
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How It Feels
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A quiet, searching meditation on a life quietly lived and suddenly questioned, Kurosawa traces one man's desperate sprint toward purpose after decades of drift, culminating in an unexpectedly tender reckoning.
Mood
MelancholicContemplativeWistfulDefiant
Themes
MortalityRedemptionIsolation
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Meditative
Look
Black and whiteNaturalisticFormalist
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
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