Ikiru
Original title: 生きる
Movie · 1952 · 143 min · DramaIMDb 8.3
United StatesAvailable to streamStreaming in 9 of 139 countries
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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