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