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Title:
Ikiru [DVD] = To live
JLCTITLE245:
[DVD] = Tōhō ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Ogun ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Uniform Title:
Ikiru (Motion picture : 1952)
Edition:
Special ed.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2004.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780780026919
Series:
General Note:
Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952.
"Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1"--Insert.
Program notes by Donald Richie inserted in container.
Special features: high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The Warrior's Camera: the Cinema of Akira Kurosawa ; "A message from Akira Kurosawa: for beautiful movies" (2000), an 81 minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Production Inc., featuring interviews with the director on the sets of his later films ; a 41 minute documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create", original theatrical trailer, improved subtitle translation.
Abstract:
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 quietly fulfilled.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Added Corporate Author:
Variant Title:
Parallel title: To live
Credits:
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
Performer:
Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyōko Seki.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
Language:
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.