A dying bureaucrat builds a park and breaks your heart in the process.
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Acting
Matsumoto Hakuō II's silent breakdown in the swing scene.
Direction
Fujita's patient, unflinching gaze at ordinary despair.
Director
Meiji Fujita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2007 TV remake adapts Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece, shifting focus to post-bubble Japan's economic anxiety rather than post-war reconstruction.
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