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.
1952 · Drama · 143 min · ⭐ 8.3/10 (1,343 votes)
Cast: Takashi Shimura(Kanji Watanabe)、Haruo Tanaka(Sakai)、Nobuo Kaneko(Mitsuo, son of Kanji)、Bokuzen Hidari(Ohara)、Miki Odagiri(Toyo)、Shinichi Himori(Kimura)、Minoru Chiaki(Noguchi)、Minosuke Yamada(Subordinate Clerk Saito)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto、Akira Kurosawa、Hideo Oguni
Similar: Last Days(2005)、Day for Night(1973)、Vivre Sa Vie(1962)、Jules and Jim(1962)、Shoot the Piano Player(1960)、Fahrenheit 451(1966)、The Double Life of Véronique(1991)、Bramayugam(2024)