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