Synopsis
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.
Movie Information
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
- Release Year
- 1952
- Runtime
- 143 minutes
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- JA
- Country
- Japan
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 (1,385 votes)
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