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