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
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Toranosuke Ogawa
Park Section Chief
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Isao Kimura
Intern
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Akira Tani
Bar Owner
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Kyoko Aoyama
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Bar Hostess
Sachio Sakai
Yakuza (uncredited)
Shōichi Hirose
Yakuza (uncredited)
Fuyuki Murakami
Newspaperman
Daisuke Katō
Yakuza
Hiroshi Koizumi
Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Taizō Fukami
Baseball Spectator
Ichirō Chiba
Policeman
Keiji Sakakida
Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)