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.| Original Title: | 生きる |
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| Status: | Released (1952-10-09) |
| Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 2 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $60,239 |
| Screen: | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni |
| Productions: | TOHO |
| Production Countries: | Japan |
| Spoken Languages: | 日本語 |
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Casts
- 7453: Takashi Shimura - Kanji Watanabe
- 34375: Haruo Tanaka - Sakai
- 34376: Nobuo Kaneko - Mitsuo, son of Kanji
- 34377: Bokuzen Hidari - Ohara
- 34378: Miki Odagiri - Toyo
- 33767: Shinichi Himori - Kimura
- 7454: Minoru Chiaki - Noguchi
Crews
- 7460: Fumio Hayasaka - Music - Sound
- 5026: Akira Kurosawa - Director - Directing
- 34380: Asakazu Nakai - Director of Photography - Camera
- 5026: Akira Kurosawa - Screenplay - Writing
- 5026: Akira Kurosawa - Editor - Editing
- 7449: Shinobu Hashimoto - Screenplay - Writing
- 20832: Sōjirō Motoki - Producer - Production
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
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Takashi Shimura is "Watanabe", an elderly civil service lifer who is told that he has terminal stomach cancer. After years of a disciplined, rather pedestrian existence he now feels a need to emancipate himself and start to live a little. The story is told through two threads: one lo ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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I watched the English follow-up version (Living) before watching this original, and wished I had reversed my order. I liked Living much more than this original, but since both were written by the same Japanese scriptwriter, my preference might be cultural rather than due to quality i ....
Continue reading ->badelf
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Typical Kurasawa creative framing in the beginning of the movie. The scene of dancers shot through bead curtains swinging in time to the music was brilliant. His choice of Miki Odagiri for muse is brilliant. Her laugh is infectious. The last act stuck me as rather static. It's perha ....
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