Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
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.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $55,240
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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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Box Office & Release
Ikiru returned 0.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $85,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $55,240
- Release date
- Oct 9, 1952
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
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