Ikiru (Film), released 1952 — adapted from The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Лев Толстой.
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.
Starring Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
