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. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. (Japan, 1952, 142 mins, dir. Akira Kurosawa, with Takashi Shimura & Nobuo Kanoko, Japanese with English subtitles) (#1445)