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.

• Kanji Watanabe: Takashi Shimura
• Sakai: Haruo Tanaka
• Mitsuo, son of Kanji: Nobuo Kaneko
• Ohara: Bokuzen Hidari
• Toyo: Miki Odagiri
• Kimura: Shinichi Himori
• Noguchi: Minoru Chiaki
• Subordinate Clerk Saito: Minosuke Yamada
• Sub-Section Chief Ono: Kamatari Fujiwara
• Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji’s Brother: Makoto Kobori
• Deputy Mayor: Nobuo Nakamura
• Patient: Atsushi Watanabe
• Intern: Isao Kimura
• Doctor: Masao Shimizu
• Novelist: Yūnosuke Itō
• The Maid: Yoshie Minami
• Tatsu Watanabe: Kumeko Urabe
• Housewife: Eiko Miyoshi
• Housewife: Noriko Honma
• Bar Hostess: Yatsuko Tan’ami
• Housewife: Kin Sugai
• Kazue Watanabe: Kyôko Seki
• City Assemblyman: Kusuo Abe
• Newspaperman: Tomo’o Nagai
• Yakuza Boss: Seiji Miyaguchi
• Yakuza: Daisuke Katō
• Yakuza: Hiroshi Hayashi
• Newspaperman: Fuyuki Murakami
• Newspaperman: Hirayoshi Aono
• Park Section Chief: Toranosuke Ogawa
• Worker in General Affairs: Akira Sera
• Policeman: Ichirô Chiba
• Bar Owner: Akira Tani
• Worker in Sewage Section: Yôyô Kojima
• Pianist: Toshiyuki Ichimura
• Dancer: Harue Kuramoto
• Stripper: Rasa Saya
• Baseball Spectator: Taizō Fukami
• Civil Engineering Section Staff: Tateo Kawasaki
• Park Division Staff: Keiichirô Katsumoto
• Cabaret Woman: Haruko Toyama
• Yakuza (uncredited): Sachio Sakai
• Yakuza (uncredited): Shôichi Hirose
• Yakuza (uncredited): Kôji Uno
• Housewife (uncredited): Yaeko Izumo
• City Hall Executive (uncredited): Jirô Mitsuaki
• General Manager (uncredited): Sôkichi Maki
• Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited): Haruo Suzuki
• (uncredited): Takeo Nagashima
• (uncredited): Kazuo Imai
• (uncredited): Shigeo Katô
• Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff (uncredited): Hiroshi Akitsu
• Road Section Receptionist (uncredited): Ippei Kawagoe
• City Planning Receptionist (uncredited): Mitsuo Tsuda
• Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited): Keiji Sakakida
• Fire Department Staff (uncredited): Takuzō Kumagai
• (uncredited): Tsuneo Katagiri
• Patient (uncredited): Junpei Natsuki
• Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited): Hiroshi Koizumi
• (uncredited): Jun’ichirō Mukai
• Narrator (voice) (uncredited): Sōjirō Motoki
• Schoolgirl (uncredited): Kyoko Aoyama

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• Editor: Akira Kurosawa
• Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto
• Screenplay: Hideo Oguni
• Producer: Sōjirō Motoki
• Music: Fumio Hayasaka
• Director of Photography: Asakazu Nakai
• Set Decoration: Akio Nojima
• Sound Effects Editor: Ichirô Minawa
• Lighting Technician: Shinji Kojima

Credits: TheMovieDb.