Ikiru

7.3

The drama will tell the story of a section chief in an overly bureaucratic city hall. He finds out that he has stomach cancer, and does not have long to live. Trying to cope with his impending death, he eventually…

Ikiru

8.2

Watanabe Kanji is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. His wife is dead and his son and daughter-in-law, who live with him, seem to care mainly about Watanabe's…

Ikiru: Okawa Shogakko Tsunami Saiban wo Tatakatta Hito Tachi

This documentary is compiled from 10 years of footage shot by some of the parents who want answers as to why they lost their children at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, due to the Great…

Wakarete Ikiru Tokimo

Inochinoshima Ikiruchikara o Tori Modosu Monogatari

Jinno Megumi loses her job at cram school and is dumped by her lover. Soon, she 's trying her luck, with "Soyokaze Gakuen High School". Megumi will be assigned to a class, to test her aptitude as a teacher during 9…

Ninshisho to Ikiru Kibo no Shohosen

This documentary from director Kazuyuki Nozawa looks at the effects of music on dementia patients. Music therapy could be a big help for societies with large elderly populations since there is currently no cure for…

Soshite, Ikiru: The Movie

7.0

Despite losing her parents at age three in a car accident, Toko experiences an idyllic childhood thanks to her uncle, who raises her. She dreams of becoming an actress and, having had some local notoriety in her town,…

Yume ni Ikiru

Boku no Ikiru Michi

7.7

A high school teacher living a normal life suddenly receives the news that he only has a year to live. Hideo Nakamura suffers from fear of death and mental confusion while regretting his past. He decides to make his…

Mama to Papa ga Ikiru Riyuu

7.5

Two years after the birth of her second child, 34-year-old Yoshioka Toko is diagnosed with breast cancer. Furthermore, surgery is not possible because she is terminally ill, but the doctor is not certain of her life…

Rasa Saya

In the film "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa, released in October 1952, there is a scene in which the main character, who plays the role of Takashi Shimura, who knows that he has a short life due to stomach cancer, is taken to the strip theater by a novelist who plays the role of Yunosuke Ito, who…

Motoki Sojiro

A Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director. He was most famous for producing several films for Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Ikiru and Throne of Blood. He also produced films for other directors, including Mikio Naruse, for whom he produced…

Fujimatsu Sora

She is a former member of STEREO FUKUOKA and Toki wo Ikiru and a former founding member of MAGICAL SPEC from Toki wo Ikiru. She joined Toki wo Ikiru on October 30, 2017, and graduated on January 28, 2023. She graduated from MAGICAL SPEC from Toki wo Ikiru on February 25, 2023. (Source: Jpop Wiki Fandom)

Uchi Hiroki

Uchi Hiroki, born in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, is a Japanese idol singer, songwriter, actor, and model. Uchi auditioned for Johnny & Associates in May 1999, at the age of twelve. He had no interest in the entertainment industry, instead dreamed about a professional baseball career, but was signed…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Yada Akiko

Yada Akiko is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 6th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix for "Boku no Ikiru Michi".

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Urabe Kumeko

Actress. Kumeko Urabe was born on October 5, 1902 in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ikiru (1952), Oka wa hanazakari (1952) and House of Many Pleasures (1955). She died on October 26, 1989.

Odagiri Miki

Odagiri Miki was a japanese actress born in the county of Toyotama-gun in Tokyo. Since childhood, she received a gifted education at Buyō (a traditional Japanese performing art) and worked as a child actress at the Shinkyo Theater Company. In 1935 she debuted on the stage with "Before the Dawn". However,…

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.