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.

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 2h 23m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Makoto Kobori, Kumeko Urabe
DIRECTOR(S): Akira Kurosawa
PRODUCER(S): Sojiro Motoki
WRITER(S): Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
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