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.

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Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Written by

Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay)
Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)
Hideo Oguni (Screenplay)

Runtime

143 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Tagline

A big story of a little man which will grip your soul ...

Cast

Keywords

office japan loneliness age difference bureaucracy playground night life sense of life swing infatuation bureaucrat obsequies

Lists

#104 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