Ikiru
- Drama
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.
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Cast
Keywords
- depressing
- loneliness
- dying and death
- praise
- black and white
- age difference
- japan
- swing
- wake
- bureaucracy
- office
- night life
- sense of life
- playground
- obsequies
- office politics
- co-workers relationship
- infatuation
- public works
- bureaucrat
- thoughts of retirement
- terminal cancer
- city park
- civil servant
- monotonous life
- accomplishments
- office gossip
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