Ikiru

Name: Ikiru
Genre: Drama
Released: 1952-10-09
Duration: 2 h 23 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri

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

生きる (1952)

Timing: 2:23 (143 min)

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Video for the film Ikiru — Ikiru (1952) Original Trailer [4K]

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Budget

$85 000

Box office

$55 240

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Director

Akira Kurosawa

Actors

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori, Minoru Chiaki, Minosuke Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Kobori
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Producer

Sōjirō Motoki

Camera operator

Asakazu Nakai

Composer

Fumio Hayasaka

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Akira Kurosawa
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Director Akira Kurosawa was inspired to create the film by Leo Tolstoy's novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".
Director Akira Kurosawa was inspired to create the film by Leo Tolstoy's novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'.