Ikiru (1952)
生きる
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
IMDb8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic92%
TMDb8.3/10Trailer
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About Ikiru
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.
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