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Ikiru (1952)

Ikiru (1952)

生きる
143 minutes JA Drama
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul ...
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
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor

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