Ikiru [videorecording] / Tåohåo Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: IKI010 | Home Vision EntertainmentLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 221.Publication details: [United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, c2004.Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

0780026918
9780780026919

Other title:

English subtitle: To live

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DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

CM DVD 00147

Production credits:

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art direction, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.

Cast: Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	CM DVD 00147 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000039753

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation (1.33:1); mono.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Information from pre-release promotional materials.

"Tåohåo Soritsu Kinen Nijåushåunen Kinen Eiga."

Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art direction, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.

A foreign film (Japan).

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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.

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.

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