Ikiru

PG
2h 23m
1952
8.3 /10 (1,193)

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

Overview

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.

Country : Japan
Genre : Drama
Languages : 日本語
Released Date: 1952-10-09

Top Billed Cast

Takashi Shimura

Kanji Watanabe

Haruo Tanaka

Sakai

Nobuo Kaneko

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Bokuzen Hidari

Ohara

Miki Odagiri

Toyo

Shinichi Himori

Kimura

Minoru Chiaki

Noguchi

Minosuke Yamada

Subordinate Clerk Saito

Kamatari Fujiwara

Sub-Section Chief Ono

Makoto Kobori

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Nobuo Nakamura

Deputy Mayor

Atsushi Watanabe

Patient

Isao Kimura

Intern

Masao Shimizu

Doctor

Yūnosuke Itō

Novelist

Yoshie Minami

The Maid

Similar Movies

poster
My Life Without Me
2003-03-07 6

My Life Without Me

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Talk to Her
2002-03-15 7.581

Talk to Her

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Million Dollar Baby
2004-12-05 7.955

Million Dollar Baby

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Léon: The Professional
1994-09-14 8.302

Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003-09-19 7.798

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
No End
1985-06-17 6.934

No End

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when S ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Breaking the Waves
1996-07-05 7.482

Breaking the Waves

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Secret Life of Words
2005-12-15 7

The Secret Life of Words

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Someone to Talk To
2016-11-04 6.3

Someone to Talk To

An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves a ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Birdbath
1971-10-29 0

Birdbath

During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Little Peach
1958-05-13 5.8

Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Tsushima Fiction
2020-12-25 0

Tsushima Fiction

From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tranquility in 13th century Japan during the Mongol invasion or a collection of 48 moving images capture ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Adult Drop
2014-04-04 7.5

Adult Drop

Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly ...
Genre :Drama
poster
You, the Living
2007-09-21 7.1

You, the Living

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Sky High
2003-12-05 6.3

Sky High

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police ...
Genre :Drama
poster
LIGHTS
2021-01-02 0

LIGHTS

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Opposite of Sex
1998-05-22 6.1

The Opposite of Sex

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Ring 0
2000-01-22 6.095

Ring 0

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Sweet and Lowdown
1999-12-03 6.783

Sweet and Lowdown

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Man of the Crowd
2013-09-29 5.9

The Man of the Crowd

Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the st ...
Genre :Drama

Check These Out

poster
Throne of Blood
1957-01-15 7.919

Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife ...
Genre :Drama
poster
High and Low
1963-03-01 8.34

High and Low

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Rashomon
1950-08-26 8.072

Rashomon

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashba ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Bad Sleep Well
1960-09-19 7.7

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the ...
Genre :Drama
poster
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946-10-29 6.877

No Regrets for Our Youth

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Tokyo Story
1953-11-03 8.183

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Kagemusha
1980-04-26 7.8

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his g ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Yojimbo
1961-04-25 8.099

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabata ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Ran
1985-06-01 8.057

Ran

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterp ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Seven Samurai
1954-04-26 8.457

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...
Genre :Drama
poster
My American Uncle
1980-05-21 7.003

My American Uncle

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile fac ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Life of Emile Zola
1937-09-09 6.7

The Life of Emile Zola

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Le vie del Signore sono finite
1987-12-19 7.3

Le vie del Signore sono finite

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Before the Rain
1994-06-09 7.4

Before the Rain

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Initiation Love
2015-05-23 7.6

Initiation Love

Set in Shizuoka and Tokyo, Japan in the late 1980's. Takkun is a university student in Shizuoka attempting to find a job. Mayu is a dental hygienist. They meet through a blind date and begin to date, ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988-03-02 6.8

Jane B. by Agnès V.

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a ye ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Idiot
1951-05-23 7.004

The Idiot

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama real ...
Genre :Drama
poster
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973-06-26 7.3

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums. ...
Genre :Drama
poster
Chimes at Midnight
1965-12-22 7.1

Chimes at Midnight

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser wh ...
Genre :Drama
poster
One Wonderful Sunday
1947-07-01 7.259

One Wonderful Sunday

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism a ...
Genre :Drama