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Ikiru

生きる

1952 · Akira Kurosawa

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Kanji Watanabe, a Tokyo bureaucrat who has spent decades pushing paper, learns he has stomach cancer and less than a year to live. After failing to find meaning in nightlife and in the company of a young co-worker, he devotes his last months to getting a playground built on a cesspool.

Director
Akira Kurosawa
Studio
Toho
Starring
Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko