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
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Isao Kimura
Intern
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Hiroshi Hayashi
Yakuza
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Taizō Fukami
Baseball Spectator
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)