Streaming Quality: 4K Ultra HD | Dolby Vision | Atmos
Rating: ⭐ 8.3/10 (1381 reviews)
Duration: 143 minutes
Genres: Drama
Director/Creator: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe, Haruo Tanaka as Sakai, Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo, son of Kanji, Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara, Miki Odagiri as Toyo, Shinichi Himori as Kimura, Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi, Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito, Kamatari Fujiwara as Sub-Section Chief Ono, Makoto Kobori as Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Status: Released
Language: JA
Overview: 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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⭐ 7/10 - review by CinemaSerf
"Takashi Shimura is 'Watanabe', an elderly civil service lifer who is told that he has terminal stomach cancer. After years of a disciplined, rather pedestrian existence he now feels a need to emancipate himself and start to live a little. The story is told through two threads: one looks at the end o..."
⭐ 7/10 - review by Peter McGinn
"I watched the English follow-up version (Living) before watching this original, and wished I had reversed my order. I liked Living much more than this original, but since both were written by the same Japanese scriptwriter, my preference might be cultural rather than due to quality issues, not to me..."
⭐ 7/10 - review by badelf
"Typical Kurasawa creative framing in the beginning of the movie. The scene of dancers shot through bead curtains swinging in time to the music was brilliant. His choice of Miki Odagiri for muse is brilliant. Her laugh is infectious. The last act stuck me as rather static. It's perhaps from cultural..."