“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
Isao Kimura
Intern
Masao Shimizu
Doctor
Yūnosuke Itō
Novelist
Good Morning, Vietnam
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Music Room
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Day the Earth Stood Still
M
Umberto D.
A Few Good Men
Crash
2046
Strangers on a Train
Andrei Rublev
City Lights
Dead Man
Rififi
The Jazz Singer
Bramayugam
Murder at the Gallop
Murder Most Foul
Murder Ahoy
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Plan 75
Hereafter
The Life of Chuck
High and Low
Colorful
Swing Kids
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Bang the Drum Slowly
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Nobody Knows
Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser
Dog Pound
Sakuran
Death of a Superhero
Call Me Chihiro
Before We Vanish
Picnic
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Fahrenheit 451
