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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori
Crew: Akira Kurosawa (Editor), Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Asakazu Nakai (Director of Photography), Sōjirō Motoki (Producer), Akira Kurosawa (Director)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: TOHO
Runtime: 143 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 09, 1952
IMDb: 2.697
Keywords:dying and death, japan, bureaucracy, age difference, praise, office, night life, sense of life, playground, obsequies, swing, loneliness, office politics, infatuation, wake, public works, short time to live, bureaucrat, thoughts of retirement, terminal cancer, city park, civil servant, monotonous life, accomplishments, office gossip
