Makoto Kobori

Japanischer Film von Akira Kurosawa aus dem Jahr 1952. Als Kanji Watanabe erfährt, dass er Krebs hat und nur noch weniger Wochen leben wird, beschließt er seinem Leben neuen Sinn zu geben.

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.