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
Isao Kimura
Intern
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Hiroshi Hayashi
Yakuza
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Noriko Honma
Housewife
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Ichirō Chiba
Policeman
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Tomo'o Nagai
Newspaperman
Toranosuke Ogawa
Park Section Chief
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Akira Tani
Bar Owner
Toshiyuki Ichimura
Pianist
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Fuyuki Murakami
Newspaperman
Taizō Fukami
Baseball Spectator
Keiichirô Katsumoto
Park Division Staff
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)