Ikiru  [videorecording] / 
English subtitle:  To live 
Tåohåo Kabushiki Kaisha ; seisaku, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa. 
 - Special ed. 
 - [United States] :  Home Vision Entertainment,  c2004. 
 - 2 videodiscs (143 min.) :  sd., b&w ;  4 3/4 in. 
 - Criterion collection ;  221 .
 - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;  221. .
<br/><br/> Information from pre-release promotional materials.  "Tåohåo Soritsu Kinen Nijåushåunen Kinen Eiga."  Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.  A foreign film (Japan).  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. 
<br/><br/>Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art direction, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.  Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art direction, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka. 
<br/><br/>Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> MPAA rating: Not rated. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD, region 1, full screen presentation (1.33:1); mono. 
<br/><br/><br/>In Japanese with optional English subtitles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0780026918 9780780026919 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>037429180525 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>IKI010  Home Vision Entertainment 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Midwest Tapes  http://www.midwesttapes.com 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cancer--Patients--Drama.<br/>Death--Drama.<br/>Feature films.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CM DVD 00147 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/72