“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
Late Autumn
Wood Job!
Prayers for Bobby
Reach for the Sky
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Hell's Angels
Outrage Coda
Perfect Days
Tokyo Story
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Plan 75
Hereafter
An Autumn Afternoon
I Just Didn't Do It
Game Changer
A Face in the Crowd
From Up on Poppy Hill
Eleanor the Great
The Life of Chuck
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms