An ageing bureaucrat who leads a monotonous life discovers he has terminal cancer. He decides to spend the little time he has left trying to bring some meaning to his existence, a quest he ultimately fulfils through using his job to do good for others. Drama, starring Takashi Shimura and Shin'ichi Himori. In Japanese.

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.