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Ikiru
1952 2h 23m Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru

★ 8.3 IMDb
Drama
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.
Writers Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
Cast Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari
DP Asakazu Nakai
Music Fumio Hayasaka
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