Drama / Psychological
Japan,
1952, 143 min
Directed by:
黒澤明Cinematography:
Asakazu NakaiComposer:
Fumio HayasakaCast:
Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Nobuo Kaneko, Atsushi Watanabe, 菅井きん, Daisuke Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi (more)Plots(1)
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a playground for the children in an urban ghetto as a way of coming to peace with his life. (official distributor synopsis)
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