Ikiru 1952

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

2h 23m · drama · Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko

8.3 on TMDB

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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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