Directed by:
黒澤明Cinematography:
Asakazu NakaiComposer:
Fumio HayasakaCast:
Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Nobuo Kaneko, Atsushi Watanabe, 菅井きん, Daisuke Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi (more)VOD (3)
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One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate - affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Takashi Shimura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272248_eaa921.jpg)
Takashi Shimura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
![Shin'ichi Himori](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272357_6ba76c.jpg)
Shin'ichi Himori
Japan
Best movies:
To Live (1952)
The Only Son (1936)
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
Haruo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
To Live (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
![Minoru Chiaki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494627_f08db7.jpg)
Minoru Chiaki
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
High and Low (1963)
To Live (1952)
![Kamatari Fujiwara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494628_76f9d4.jpg)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Seven Samurai (1954)
High and Low (1963)
Nobuo Kaneko
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Shogun (1980) (series)
To Live (1952)
Atsushi Watanabe
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Red Beard (1965)
Yojimbo (1961)
菅井きん
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
High and Low (1963)
This Passing Life (1970)
![Daisuke Katō](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886513_8bb3e1.jpg)
Daisuke Katō
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
![Seiji Miyaguchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279848_3a706d.jpg)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
![Isao Kimura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279852_5108f7.jpg)
Isao Kimura
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
High and Low (1963)
三好栄子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
To Live (1952)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
左卜全
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Red Beard (1965)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
![浦辺粂子](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/366/161366751_125d19.jpg)
浦辺粂子
Japan
Best movies:
To Live (1952)
Early Spring (1956)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Shigeo Katô
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
To Live (1952)
Fort Graveyard (1965)