- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1999-01-15
- Director: Kaneto Shindō
- Writers: Kaneto Shindō
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Rentaro Mikuni , Shinobu Otake , Akira Emoto , Hideko Yoshida , Eimei Esumi , Hideo Kanze , Rinko Kikuchi , Yoshiko Miyazaki , Yôko Nakajima , Masayuki Shionoya
- Runtime: 119 min
- Awards: 3 wins
- AKA: 生きたい (Japan) , Ikitai , Witalność (Poland) , Will to Live
- Plot: It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original.
- IMDB:tt0309703
Ikitai Cast · · · ALL
Kaneto Shindō
Director
Rentaro Mikuni
Yasukichi
Shinobu Otake
Tokuko
Naoko Ôtani
Yasukichi's lover
Akira Emoto
Doctor
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Tomoko
Chōei Takahashi
Akaji Maro
Hideo Kanze
Director of a hospital
Masaru Baba
Yuriko Hirooka
Hitoshi Kusanagi
Nao Omori
Rinko Kikuchi
Naomasa Musaka
Hisako Hara
Moeko Ezawa
Manabu Muraji
Bokuzō Masana
Rei Natsume
Hideko Yoshida
Old woman at village
Masayuki Shionoya
Ei Hamura
Masahiko Tsugawa
Village chief
Tokuko Watanabe
Village chief's lover
Eimei Esumi
Villager