- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1956-03-25
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Writers: Akira Kurosawa , Shinobu Hashimoto , Hideo Oguni
- Language: Japanese | Latin | English | French
- Stars: Takashi Shimura , Nobuo Kaneko , Shinichi Himori , Haruo Tanaka , Minoru Chiaki , Miki Odagiri , Bokuzen Hidari , Minosuke Yamada , Kamatari Fujiwara , Makoto Kobori
- Runtime: 143 min
- Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 2 nominations total
- AKA: Ikiru (Israel) , Vivre (Canada) , Ikiru - At leve (Denmark) , Piętno śmierci (Poland) , Ikiru - Einmal wirklich leben , Ikiru (New Zealand) , 生之慾 (Taiwan) , Watanabe Kanji no Shōgai (Japan) , Živjeti (Croatia) , Ikiru (Thailand) , Ikiru (Singapore) , 生之欲 (China) , At leve (Denmark) , Жить , Ikiru (United States of America) , Ikiru (Egypt) , 이키루 (Korea) , Ikiru: Einmal wirklich leben (Germany) , Vivre enfin un seul jour (France, French Republic) , Ο καταδικασμένος (Greece) , Viver - Ikiru (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Gyventi (Lithuania) , Vivir (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , To Live , Ikiru (United Kingdom) , Živeti (Slovenia) , To Live (United States of America) , Да се живее (Bulgaria) , Vivir (Mexico) , Viver (Brazil) , El Predestinado , Ikiru (Netherlands the) , Živeti , Vivir (Peru) , Ikiru - Tuomittu (Finland) , Ikiru - Vivir (Mexico) , Žít (Czech Republic) , A trăi (Romania) , Vivre (France, French Republic) , Живети (Serbia) , Ikiru (India) , The Life of Kanji Watanabe (Japan) , Ikiru (India) , 流芳頌 (Hong Kong) , 生きる (Japan) , Leben! , Vivir (Spain) , Living , Å leve (Norway) , Ikiru (Hong Kong) , Doomed , Att leva (Sweden) , Vivere (Italy) , Ikiru (Canada) , Élni (Hungary) , Ikiru (Australia) , Жити (Ukraine) , Živeti , Ikiru , Yaşamak (Turkey) , 渡辺勘治の生涯 (Japan) , Vivir (Argentina) , Ikiru (Vivir) (Spain) , Doomed (United States of America)At leve, Att leva, Doomed, Élni, Ikiru - At leve, Ikiru - Einmal wirklich leben, Ikiru - Tuomittu, Ikiru - Vivir, Leben!, Living, O katadikasmenos, Pietno smierci, To Live, Viver, Vivere, Vivir, Vivre, Vivre enfin un seul jour, Yasamak, Živeti, Да се живее, Жить, 活下去, 生きる, 生之欲, 留芳颂
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0044741
Ikiru Cast · · · ALL
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Isao Kimura
Intern
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Yoshie Minami
The Maid
Kumeko Urabe
Tatsu Watanabe
Eiko Miyoshi
Housewife
Noriko Honma
Housewife
Yatsuko Tan’ami
Bar Hostess
Kin Sugai
Housewife
Kyôko Seki
Kazue Watanabe
Kusuo Abe
City Assemblyman
Tomo’o Nagai
Newspaperman
Seiji Miyaguchi
Yakuza Boss