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.
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Isao Kimura
Intern
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Fuyuki Murakami
Newspaperman
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Shigeo Katō
(uncredited)
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Tomo'o Nagai
Newspaperman
Takuzō Kumagai
Fire Department Staff (uncredited)
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Park Division Staff
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)