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.
Keywords:
Dying and death
Japan
Bureaucracy
Age difference
Praise
Office
Night life
Sense of life
Playground
Obsequies
Swing
Loneliness
Office politics
Black and white
Co-workers relationship
Infatuation
Wake
Public works
Bureaucrat
Thoughts of retirement
Terminal cancer
City park
Civil servant
Monotonous life
Accomplishments
Office gossip
Burocracia
Terceira idade
Movie tag line: "A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."