Ikiru (1952)
生きる
"A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."
Critics Score
🎬 95%
(RT: 98%, MC: 92) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
Nobuo Kaneko as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Bokuzen Hidari as Ohara
Miki Odagiri as Toyo
Shinichi Himori as Kimura
Minosuke Yamada as Subordinate Clerk Saito
Is Ikiru good?
Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 95%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
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. Wikipedia ↗
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What Reddit Thinks
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Top comment: "Maybe it's just me, but I find Ikiru to be downright bleak as shit, and a pretty Kafkaesque..."