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Ikiru (1952)

★ 8.3 · 1,336 ratings on TMDB

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

Ikiru poster★ 8.3

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.

DirectorAkira Kurosawa
CastBokuzen Hidari, Haruo Tanaka, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori, Miki Odagiri, Minoru Chiaki
GenresDrama
The emergence reading

Ikiru keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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