Ikiru

1952 · 143 min · Original language: Japanese

TMDB 8.3/10 · 1,394 votes

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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