Ikiru
“A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...”
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.
Genres
Drama
Studio
TOHO
Language
ja
Status
Released
How Ikiru performed
Budget
$85,000
Worldwide Gross
$55,240
Gross Profit
−$29,760
Return
0.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$8K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Kanji Watanabe
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Sakai
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Ohara
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Toyo
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Kimura
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Noguchi
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Deputy Mayor
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Patient
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
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