Ikiru [translated: To live]
Janus Films; Toho Co., Ltd.; produced by Sojiro Motogi; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni; directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Edition:
- Special ed.
- Creation:
- 1952
- Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
- Copyright:
- ©2004
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- Summary:
- 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.
- Contributors:
- Language Notes:
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
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- Related Series:
- Alternate Titles:
- Title translation: To live
- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Performers:
- Cast: Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.
- Production Credits:
- Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
- General Notes:
- Berlin International Film Festival, 1954: Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin.
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. - Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- IKI 1952 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 0780026918
- Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 037429180525
Publisher Number, Criterion Collection: IKI010 - OCLC Numbers:
- 53784305
