---
title: 'Ikiru (1952)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Akira Kurosawa'
released: '1952-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 143
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ikiru-1952'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ikiru (1952)

1952 · 143 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 生きる

## Synopsis

Ikiru  is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Shinobu Hashimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-hashimoto), [Hideo Oguni](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideo-oguni)
- **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Fumio Hayasaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/fumio-hayasaka)
- **Producer:** [Sōjirō Motoki](https://cinepixo.com/people/sojiro-motoki)
- **Director of Photography:** [Asakazu Nakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/asakazu-nakai)

## Cast

- [Bokuzen Hidari](https://cinepixo.com/people/bokuzen-hidari)
- [Kamatari Fujiwara](https://cinepixo.com/people/kamatari-fujiwara)
- [Seiji Miyaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/seiji-miyaguchi)
- [Nobuo Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-nakamura)
- [Shinichi Himori](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinichi-himori)
- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Kin Sugai](https://cinepixo.com/people/kin-sugai)
- [Makoto Kobori](https://cinepixo.com/people/makoto-kobori)
- [Minoru Chiaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/minoru-chiaki)
- [Nobuo Kaneko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-kaneko)
- [Yūnosuke Itō](https://cinepixo.com/people/yunosuke-ito)
- [Noriko Honma](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-honma)
- [Haruo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruo-tanaka)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ikiru-1952
Film facts: Wikidata (Q152105); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.