Release Date

October, 9th, 1952

Running Time

143 min

Genre

Feature

Color

Monochrome

Screening Format

-

Screen Size

Standard (1:1.37)

Sound Processing

-

[ Directed by ]

• KUROSAWA Akira

[ Produced by ]

• MOTOKI Sojiro

[ Cast ]

• SHIMURA Takashi ── WATANABE Kanji
• ODAGIRI Miki ── ODAGIRI Toyo
• HIMORI Shinichi ── KIMURA

[ Staff ]

• KUROSAWA Akira ── Screenplay
• HASHIMOTO Shinobu ── Screenplay
• OGUNI Hideo ── Screenplay
• NAKAI Asakazu ── Photography
• HAYASAKA Fumio ── Music
• MATSUYAMA Takashi ── Art Director

[ Production Company ]

TOHO

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

TOHO

[ Story ]

Thrown into despair after his terminal cancer diagnosis, a city office bureaucrat fights to turn around his unremarkable life and do something of consequence with his remaining time. This was the first film Kurosawa co-wrote with famed scriptwriters HASHIMOTO Shinobu and OGUNI Hideo, marking the start of a collaborative relationship that would result in numerous masterpieces. The film received a foreign remake in 2022 in the form of Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus and based on a screenplay by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.

Written by FUJIWARA Masao
Reference: National Film Archive of Japan screening program
Translated by Adam Sutherland

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

1954 Berlin International Film Festival, Competition

[ Contact (International) ]

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