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Ikiru

To live (parallel title)

Motoki, Sojiro (Added Author). Hashimoto, Shinobu 1918- (Added Author). Oguni, Hideo 1904-1996 (Added Author). Kurosawa, Akira 1910-1998 (Added Author). Shimura, Takashi 1905-1982 (Added Author). Odagiri, Miki (Added Author). Kaneko, Nobuo 1923-1995 (Added Author). Seki, Kyōko 1926- (Added Author). Nakai, Asakazu 1901-1988 (Added Author). Hayasaka, Fumio 1914-1955 (Added Author). Hashimoto, Shinobu 1918- (Added Author). Hayasaka, Fumio 1914-1955 (Added Author). Kaneko, Nobuo 1923-1995 (Added Author). Kurosawa, Akira 1910-1998 (Added Author). Motoki, Sojiro (Added Author). Nakai, Asakazu 1901-1988 (Added Author). Odagiri, Miki (Added Author). Oguni, Hideo 1904-1996 (Added Author). Richie, Donald 1924-2013 (Added Author). Seki, Kyōko 1926- (Added Author). Shimura, Takashi 1905-1982 (Added Author). Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author). Janus Films. (Added Author). Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. (Added Author). Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki. (Cast).

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 quietly fulfilled.

Record details

ISBN: 0780026918
ISBN: 9780780026919
Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Special edition
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1"--Insert. Full screen presentation. Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952. Program notes by Donald Richie inserted in container. Some credits from insert. 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.
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.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
System Details Note:	DVD ; Dolby digital, mono.
Language Note:	In Japanese with optional English subtitles.