DVD
Ikiru
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Special ed. ; Full screen version.
Languages
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.
Publication Information
[United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, c2004.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary
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.
Notes
Information from pre-release promotional materials.
"Tōhō Soritsu Kinen Nijūshūnen Kinen Eiga."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
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.