Ikiru
生きる /
DVD - 2015
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
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- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2015]
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Online Access
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- Item Description
- Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952.
Partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella The death of Ivan Ilyich.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Special features: Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior's Camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with the director; Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others; Trailer; New English subtitle translation. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Nakai Asakazu ; editor, Iwashita Kōichi ; music, Hayasaka Fumio.
- ISBN
- 9781681430713
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