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
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss
Isao Kimura
Intern
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Akira Tani
Bar Owner
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Hiroshi Hayashi
Yakuza
Shigeo Katō
(uncredited)
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)