Title
Ikiru

Also known as
Doomed, Living, To Live

Running Time
143 min.

Released Date
Oct. 9, 1952

Production
Toho

Produced by
Sojiro Motoki

Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa

Producer
Sojiro Motoki

Director of Photography
Asakaju Nakai

Music
Fumio Hayasaka

Art Director
So Matsuyama

Lighting
Shigeru Mori

Sound Recording
Fumio Yanoguchi

Cast
Takashi Shimura (As Kanji Watanabe)
Nobuo Kaneko (As Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son)
Kyko Seki (As Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife)
Makoto Kobori (As Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother)
Kumeko Urabe (As Tatsu Watanabe, Kiichi's Wife)

Plot Summary
Kanji Watanabe is a bureaucrat in city office spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life.