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. .

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.

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

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

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.

MPAA rating: Not rated.


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


In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

0780026918 9780780026919

037429180525

IKI010 Home Vision Entertainment

Midwest Tapes http://www.midwesttapes.com


Cancer--Patients--Drama.
Death--Drama.
Feature films.

CM DVD 00147

791.43/72