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
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Isao Kimura
Intern
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Fuyuki Murakami
Newspaperman
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Hiroshi Hayashi
Yakuza
Tomo'o Nagai
Newspaperman
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Toshiyuki Ichimura
Pianist
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)