
About
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.
Cast

Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe

Haruo Tanaka
Sakai

Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara

Miki Odagiri
Toyo

Shinichi Himori
Kimura

Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi

Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito

Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Keywords
office japan loneliness bar age difference bureaucracy playground night life sense of life swing infatuation bureaucrat obsequies
Lists
#107 on IMDb top 250 IMDb
#113 on 1,000 greatest films They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
#459 on Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time Empire
#44 on The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema Empire