While at a nightclub the main character requests to hear the song "Life is Brief.
One character in this film neglects to wind his alarm all the way and hides under the covers instead. Some characters in this film receive nicknames like Sea Slug and Flypaper, and a flashback shows one character getting tagged out at a baseball game. The protagonist is taken out by a novelist who calls himself a Mephistopheles who asks for no reward, and another character quits her current job to get a new one manufacturing toy rabbits. While at a nightclub the main character requests to hear the song "Life is Brief." That protagonist is also accused of sleeping with a former subordinate by his son Mitsuo, and he soon resolves to fulfill a request by mothers from Karoue in order to make up for 30 wasted years at his desk job. For 10 points, identify this film in which bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe builds a children's playground upon learning that he has stomach cancer, directed by Akira Kurosawa.
One character in this film neglects to wind his alarm all the way and hides under the covers instead.
{Ikiru} (or To {Live})