Ikiru

When a clerk discovers that he has cancer and only six months to live he is forced to appraise his life. He decides that to make it more meaningful he must help others, so he wages a battle against the local bureaucracy to reclaim a local wasteland into a playground. Japanese film with English subtitles. Director: Akira Kurosawa., A man learns he is dying of an incurable cancer. He sees his past life as wasted but spends the last months creating a children's playground in a poor sector of the city. (Circulates)

Credits

Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
Takashi Shimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Noriko Honma, Haruo Tanaka, Yūnosuke Itō, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kin Sugai, Nobuo Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki, Bokuzen Hidari, Shinichi Himori, Nobuo Kaneko, Makoto Kobori
Produced by
Sōjirō Motoki
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai
Music
Fumio Hayasaka
Edited by
Akira Kurosawa
Complete catalog record
, A man learns he is dying of an incurable cancer. He sees his past life as wasted but spends the last months creating a children's playground in a poor sector of the city. (Circulates)
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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q152105 ↗ — country, credits