1952 • NR • 2h 23m
8.3/10
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Overview
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for 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.
8.3/10
( users) Cast / Crew 
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 
Kamatari Fujiwara Sub-Section Chief Ono 
Makoto Kobori Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother 
Nobuo Nakamura Deputy Mayor 
Atsushi Watanabe Patient 
Isao Kimura Intern 
Masao Shimizu Doctor 
Yūnosuke Itō Novelist 
Fumio Hayasaka Music 
Akira Kurosawa Director 
Asakazu Nakai Director of Photography Akira Kurosawa Screenplay Akira Kurosawa Editor 
Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay 
Sōjirō Motoki Producer 
Akio Nojima Set Decoration Shinji Kojima Lighting Technician Ichirô Minawa Sound Effects Editor 
Hideo Oguni Screenplay
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 Kamatari Fujiwara Sub-Section Chief Ono Makoto Kobori Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother Nobuo Nakamura Deputy Mayor Atsushi Watanabe Patient Isao Kimura Intern Masao Shimizu Doctor Yūnosuke Itō Novelist Fumio Hayasaka Music Akira Kurosawa Director Asakazu Nakai Director of Photography Akira Kurosawa Screenplay Akira Kurosawa Editor Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay Sōjirō Motoki Producer Akio Nojima Set Decoration Shinji Kojima Lighting Technician Ichirô Minawa Sound Effects Editor Hideo Oguni Screenplay 
Keywords
dying and death japan bureaucracy age difference praise office night life sense of life playground obsequies swing loneliness office politics infatuation wake public works short time to live bureaucrat thoughts of retirement terminal cancer city park civil servant monotonous life accomplishments office gossip
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