Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- dying and death
- japan
- bureaucracy
- age difference
- praise
- office
- night life
- sense of life
- playground
- obsequies
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Miki Odagiri — Toyo
- Shinichi Himori — Kimura
- Minoru Chiaki — Noguchi
- Minosuke Yamada — Subordinate Clerk Saito
- Kamatari Fujiwara — Sub-Section Chief Ono
- Makoto Kobori — Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
- Nobuo Nakamura — Deputy Mayor
- Atsushi Watanabe — Patient
- Isao Kimura — Intern
- Masao Shimizu — Doctor
- Yūnosuke Itō — Novelist
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 1,384 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
