IKIRU (N/A QUEBEC)

Details

• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the fullest, but to leave something meaningful behind.
• Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari, Minosuke Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori, Nobuo Kaneko, Nobuo Nakamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Isao Kimura, Masao Shimizu, Yûnosuke Itô, Kumeko Urabe, Kin Sugai, Eiko Miyoshi, Fumiko Honma, Yatsuko Tanami, Yoshie Minami, Kyôko Seki, Kusuo Abe, Tomoo Nagai, Seiji Miyaguchi, Daisuke Katô, Miki Hayashi, Fuyuki Murakami, Hirayoshi Aono, Junpei Natsuki, Toranosuke Ogawa, Akira Sera, Ichirô Chiba, Akira Tani, Yoko Kajima, Mie, Sachio Sakai, Toshiyuki Ichimura, Harue Kuramoto, Lasa Saya, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Sôjirô Motoki, Asakazu Nakai, Kôichi Iwashita, Fumio Hayasaka, Fumio Yanoguchi, Takashi Matsuyama
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:23
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Toho Company
• Media Format: Movie