Ikiru = To live
by
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, screenwriter, film director.
Title
:
Ikiru = To live
Alternate title
:
Translated English title: To live
Added Title
:
Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies
Author
:
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, screenwriter, film director.
Motoki, Sōjirō. film producer.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, screenwriter.
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, screenwriter.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, actor.
Odagiri, Miki. actor.
Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995, actor.
Seki, Kyōko, 1926-2007, actor.
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, composer.
Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020, commentator.
Iyer, Pico, writer of supplementary textual content.
Richie, Donald, 1924-2013, writer of supplementary textual content.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Toho Kabushiki Kaisha. production company.
Janus Films, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
Series
:
Criterion collection ;
Series Number
:
221.
Summary
:
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.
Audience
:
[Not rated]
General Note
:
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. An essay "Ikiru Many Autumns Later" by film critic Pico Iyer and a reprint "To Live" from critic Donald Richie's 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa.
Edition
:
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Description
:
2 videodiscs (143 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Genre
:
Foreign films.
Films in Japanese.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Subject Term
:
Cancer -- Patients -- Drama.
Death -- Drama.
Author(s)
:
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998,
Motoki, Sōjirō.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018,
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996,
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982,
Odagiri, Miki.
Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995,
Seki, Kyōko, 1926-2007,
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955,
Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020,
Iyer, Pico,
Richie, Donald, 1924-2013,
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Added Corporate Author
:
Toho Kabushiki Kaisha.
Janus Films,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
Publisher
:
Criterion Collection,
Publication Date
:
2015
1952
ISBN
:
9781681430713
Publication Information
:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Call Number
:
DVD IKIRU
| Item Barcode | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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| 33607003086991 | Foreign Language DVDs | IKIRU | Checked In |