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Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Drama
Released: 1952-10-09
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri

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.

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Cast

Takashi ShimuraHaruo TanakaNobuo KanekoBokuzen HidariMiki OdagiriShinichi HimoriMinoru ChiakiMinosuke YamadaKamatari FujiwaraMakoto KoboriNobuo NakamuraAtsushi Watanabe

Director

Akira Kurosawa

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