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Ikiru (1952)

Kanji Watanabe has spent decades in a dull government office, following routines that have left little room for a life beyond work. After learning that he has cancer, the middle-aged bureaucrat begins questioning how he has used his time and turns to Toyo, a younger former colleague, for a different perspective. He eventually chooses a neglected vacant lot as the place where he can make a useful contribution, but getting a children’s playground built means confronting the slow, impersonal machinery of his own department.

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TMDB 8.3 (1,359)
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Country Japan
Release date Oct 9, 1952
Runtime 2h 23m
Language Japanese
Genre Drama
Age Rating Not rated

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