tt0044741 Ikiru (1952)Director : Akira Kurosawa

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Genre : Drama

Cast : : , Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe , Shinichi Himori as Kimura , Haruo Tanaka as Sakai , Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi , Miki Odagiri as Toyo Odagiri, employee , Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara , Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito , Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono , Makoto Kobori as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother , Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son , Nobuo Nakamura as Deputy Mayor , Atsushi Watanabe as Patient , Isao Kimura as Intern , Masao Shimizu as Doctor , Yûnosuke Itô as Novelist

Plot : Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat inside a city place of work who, along side the recreation of the office, spends his absolute acting living doing nothing… See more » |

Run Time : 143 min | Sweden:123 min (cut version)

Country : Japan

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Language : Japanese | English

Filming Locations : Japan

Company : Toho Company

Trivia : The correct translation of Ikiru is “To Live”.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: A beer indication is backwards inside a saloon scene, helpful the routine of a mirror image.

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Plot Summary : Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat inside a city quarters who, together with the leisure of the office, spends his full operating existence doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer furthermore requests to estimate several meaning inside his life. He finds himself ineffective to discuss also his family, furthermore spends a dead night on the town also a novelist, however that vegetation him unfulfilled. He afterwards spends term also a tender mature woman bask in his office, however lastly decides he may well variety a change ready his job… After Watanabe’s death, co-workers at his funeral investigate his comprtment excess of the end numerous months furthermore conversation why he all of sudden became assertive inside his post to advertise a city park, furthermore decide to troth added similar to Watanabe.

In a Post-War Tokyo, as the bureaucratic center of section of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) finds that he has a damaging cancer, he decides to intensively live his closing months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, furthermore fights since the construction of a playground inside a displaced spot of the city furthermore the legacy of his existence.

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