Ikiru

1952 · 143 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · 95,164 VOTES · DIR. Akira Kurosawa

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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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,139 lines

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00:00:19 TOHO CO., LTD.
00:06:09 Is this really what life is all about?
00:09:39 Forget it. We won't bother you anymore.
00:14:38 And then
00:20:51 Listen, honey.
00:30:09 CERTI FICATE OF APPRECIATION
00:34:04 I can't get to sleep unless I take them with my nightcap.
00:38:00 and all the other painful things.
00:42:33 Let us go reclaim the life you have wasted.
00:51:23 For those to whom
01:00:19 But it just doesn't make sense that that's all it took to set Dad off.
01:05:39 so he looks down on me.
01:10:46 Okay, then. The Mummy.
01:18:14 Father, let's drop it.
01:24:09 I don't even know myself
01:28:16 You're right. It's just impossible to make anything there. So quit and go...
01:35:09 They don't even call it a speech.
01:39:55 That's what you say, Deputy Mayor, but here's what I think.
01:47:35 Oh, we were just discussing
01:51:27 You've got a point there. Our section chief gave in, too.
01:57:58 It's too sentimental to attribute it alldto Watanabe-san's dedication.
02:05:43 But doesn't it make you furious when they walk all over you this way?
02:10:31 The thing is
02:16:39 His haunting voice...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,139
Dialogue density8.0 lines / min
First line00:00:19
Final line02:16:39

Production Record

DirectorAkira Kurosawa
LanguageJapanese
Revenue$55,240
IMDb votes95,164