Ikiru

Ikiru (1952)

October 9th, 19522h 23min

Drama
83%

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.


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