Ikiru

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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Subjects
Cancer > Patients > Drama.
Terminally ill > Drama.
Self-realization in old age > Drama.
Death > Drama.
Japan > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection [2015]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Author
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社
Corporate Author
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社 (production company)
Other Authors
Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998 (screenwriter), Sōjirō Motoki (film producer), Shinobu Hashimoto, 1918-2018 (actor), Hideo Oguni, 1904-1996 (-), Takashi Shimura, 1905-1982, Shinʼichi Himori, 1907-1959, Haruo Tanaka, 1912-1992, Minoru Chiaki, 1917-1999, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari, 1894-1971, Kamatari Fujiwara, 1905-1985, Makoto Kobori, Nobuo Kaneko, 1923-1995, Kyōko Seki, 1926-, Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
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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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