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Ikiru

"A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."
PG1952
4.2

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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PG1952

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.

4.2
director
Akira Kurosawa
cast
Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari 
genres
Drama
runtime
2 hr 23 mins
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