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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Takashi Shimura | Kanji Watanabe |
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Shin'ichi Himori | Kimura |
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Haruo Tanaka | Sakai |
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Minoru Chiaki | Noguchi |
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Miki Odagiri | Toyo Odagiri / employee |
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Bokuzen Hidari | Ohara |
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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 Kaneko | Mitsuo Watanabe / Kanji's son |
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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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Yunosuke Ito | Novelist |
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Kumeko Urabe | Tatsu Watanabe / Kiichi's Wife |
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Eiko Miyoshi | Housewife |
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Noriko Honma | Housewife |
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Yatsuko Tan'ami | Bar Hostess |
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Kin Sugai | Housewife |
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Yoshie Minami | The Maid |
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Kyôko Seki | Kazue Watanabe / Mitsuo's wife |
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Kusuo Abe | City Assemblyman |
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Tomo'o Nagai | Newspaperman |
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Seiji Miyaguchi | Yakuza Boss |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
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| Writer | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni | |
| Producer | Sojiro Motoki | |
| Musician | Fumio Hayasaka | |
| Photography | Asakazu Nakai | |
| Edition | Special Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Academy Ratio (1.37:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [Japanese] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | Criterion |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jan 06, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Index | 2097 |
| Added Date | Jul 16, 2018 21:56:57 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:44 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with the director
Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and a reprint from critic Donald Richie’s 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa
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