“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.
Takashi Shimura
Kanji Watanabe
Haruo Tanaka
Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari
Ohara
Miki Odagiri
Toyo
Shinichi Himori
Kimura
Minoru Chiaki
Noguchi
Minosuke Yamada
Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara
Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Nakamura
Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe
Patient
Into the Meridian
My Life Without Me
Amores Perros
Freaks
Wings of Desire
Million Dollar Baby
The 400 Blows
Perfect Days
Tokyo Story
The Ballad of Narayama
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Hereafter
An Autumn Afternoon
The Secret Life of Words
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Lost in Translation
The Bad Sleep Well
Eleanor the Great
From Up on Poppy Hill
The Life of Chuck