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
Infatuation
Wake
Public works
Bureaucrat
Thoughts of retirement
Terminal cancer
City park
Civil servant
Monotonous life
Accomplishments
Office gossip
Movie tag line: "A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."