Ikiru

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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  Akira Kurosawa

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  Takashi Shimura
  Kanji Watanabe
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  Haruo Tanaka
  Sakai
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  Nobuo Kaneko
  Mitsuo, son of Kanji
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  Bokuzen Hidari
  Ohara
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  Miki Odagiri
  Toyo
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  Shinichi Himori
  Kimura
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  Minoru Chiaki
  Noguchi
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  Minosuke Yamada
  Subordinate Clerk Saito
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  Kamatari Fujiwara
  Sub-Section Chief Ono
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  Makoto Kobori
  Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
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  Nobuo Nakamura
  Deputy Mayor
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  Atsushi Watanabe
  Patient
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  Isao Kimura
  Intern
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  Masao Shimizu
  Doctor
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  Yūnosuke Itō
  Novelist
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  Yoshie Minami
  The Maid
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  Kumeko Urabe
  Tatsu Watanabe
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  Eiko Miyoshi
  Housewife
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  Noriko Honma
  Housewife
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  Yatsuko Tan'ami
  Bar Hostess