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Ikiru (生きる)

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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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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Date Made
1952
Country
Japan
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