Ikiru

Synopsis

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.

Top cast

Matsumoto Hakuō II

Kyoko Fukada

Kazuki Kitamura

Yusuke Santamaria

Masahiko Nishimura

Ikkei Watanabe

Meikyo Yamada

Takehiko Ono

Jiro Sato

Toshihide Tonesaku