Kanji Watanabe has worked in the same monotonous, bureaucratic position in the Tokyo public works department for thirty years and is close to retirement. His wife is dead, and his son, Mitsuo, who lives with his wife in h… See more

• Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe
• Shinichi Himori as Kimura
• Haruo Tanaka as Sakai
• Minoru Chiaki as Noguchi… See more

Death is a major theme in the film, which leads to the protagonist Watanabe's quest to find the meaning of life. Initially, Watanabe looks to nightclubs and women to live life to the fullest, but winds up singing the 1915 so… See more