Ikiru = : To Live
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
Special features: new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The warroir's camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; "A message from Akira Kurosawa" (2000); documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa: to create is beautiful"; original theatrical trailer; improved subtitle translation.
Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation (1.33:1); mono.
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SERIES
Criterion collection.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780026918 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Motoki, Sojiro.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
Odagiri, Miki.
Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995.
Seki, Kyōko, 1926-
Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.
Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977.
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
Tōhō Eiga, Kabushiki Kaisha.
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Cancer -- Patients -- Drama.
Death -- Drama.
Japanese language materials.
Foreign films -- Japan.