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Ikiru

1952
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
2h 23m

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 ShimuraKanji WatanabeHaruo TanakaSakaiNobuo KanekoMitsuo, son of Kanji
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
8.3

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