Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa directed this study of an old man (Takashi Shimura) seeking to redeem his life. Mitsuo: Nobuo Kaneko. Kiichi: Makoto Kobori. Mitsuo’s Wife: Kyoko Seki. Kiichi’s Wife: Kumeko Urabe. Toyo: Miki Odagiri. Maid: Yoshie Minami., Akira Kurosawa’s moving 1950s-set drama. A bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) tries to find meaning in life after he discovers he has terminal cancer. In Japanese with English subtitles., Akira Kurosawa’s drama stars Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe, a government clerk who learns he has only months to live. Fearing his life may amount to nothing, he decides to turn his back on his rigid routines in order to search for the meaning of existence.