Ikiru

Ikiru

Original title: 生きる

Movie · 1952 · 143 min · DramaTMDB 8.3

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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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