License to Live
1999, Japanese. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?
Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 23 January 1999
- Original title
- ニンゲン合格
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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License to Live runs 110 minutes (1h 50m).
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License to Live isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 January 1999. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed License to Live?
License to Live (1999) was directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and stars Hidetoshi Nishijima, Koji Yakusho, Shun Sugata.