
Ikiru
2007, Japanese. Directed by Meiji Fujita.
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
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- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 9 September 2007
- Original title
- 生きる
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
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Ikiru (2007) was directed by Meiji Fujita and stars Matsumoto Hakuō II, Kyoko Fukada, Kazuki Kitamura.