Ikiru

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...

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.

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Screenplay

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa

Screenplay

Hideo Oguni

Producer

Sōjirō Motoki

Original Music Composer

Fumio Hayasaka

Director of Photography

Asakazu Nakai