DVD
Ikiru [videorecording] = To live / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motogi ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Record details
- ISBN: 0780026918 :
- Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Special ed., widescreen.
- Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952. Special features: audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The warrior's camera : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; "A message from Akira Kurosawa" (2000); documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa, it is wonderful to create"; original theatrical trailer. Some credits from insert. "Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1"--Insert. Program notes by Donald Richie inserted in container. Recorded in Dolby digital mono. Second series from container. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| System Details Note: | DVD. |
| Language Note: | In Japanese with optional English subtitles. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Cancer > Patients > Drama. Death > Drama. Motion pictures, Japanese. |
| Genre: | Feature films. Foreign films. |
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- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 221.
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
