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Ikiru
生きる
8.31952
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Streaming availability3 providers listedUpdated 4 Mar 2026
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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.
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