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
Toshiyuki Ichimura
Pianist
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Taizō Fukami
Baseball Spectator
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shigeo Katō
(uncredited)
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)