
Kanji Watanabe

Sakai

Mitsuo, son of Kanji

Ohara

Toyo

Kimura

Noguchi

Subordinate Clerk Saito

Sub-Section Chief Ono

Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother

Deputy Mayor

Patient

Intern

Doctor

Novelist

The Maid

Tatsu Watanabe

Housewife

Housewife

Bar Hostess

Housewife

Kazue Watanabe

City Assemblyman

Newspaperman

Yakuza Boss

Yakuza

Yakuza

Newspaperman

Newspaperman
Park Section Chief
Worker in General Affairs
Policeman
Bar Owner
Worker in Sewage Section

Pianist

Dancer
Stripper

Baseball Spectator
Civil Engineering Section Staff

Park Division Staff
Cabaret Woman

Yakuza (uncredited)

Yakuza (uncredited)
Yakuza (uncredited)
Housewife (uncredited)
City Hall Executive (uncredited)
General Manager (uncredited)

Sanitation Division Receptionist (uncredited)
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Infectious Diseases Section Receptionist Staff (uncredited)
Road Section Receptionist (uncredited)
City Planning Receptionist (uncredited)

Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)

Fire Department Staff (uncredited)
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Patient (uncredited)

Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
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Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Schoolgirl (uncredited)

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.