In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Unfortunately the movie Ikiru is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Meiji Fujita | Director |
Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
Writing | Hideo Oguni | Screenplay |