TY  - ADVS
AU  - Motoki,Sojiro
AU  - Hashimoto,Shinobu
AU  - Oguni,Hideo
AU  - Kurosawa,Akira
AU  - Shimura,Takashi
AU  - Odagiri,Miki
AU  - Kaneko,Nobuo
AU  - Seki,Kyåoko
AU  - Nakai,Asakazu
AU  - Matsuyama,So
AU  - Hayasaka,Fumio
ED  - Tåohåo Eiga, Kabushiki Kaisha.
ED  - Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
TI  - Ikiru
T2  - Criterion collection
SN  - 0780026918
AV  - CM DVD 00147 
U1  - 791.43/72 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - [United States]
PB  - Home Vision Entertainment
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Drama
KW  - Death
KW  - Feature films
N1  - 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; Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki; MPAA rating: Not rated
N2  - 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
ER  -