Ikiru

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

Plot Summary

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

1952

JP

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