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Ikiru [2 Discs]

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Released: 2004-01-06

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Ikiru [2 Discs] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Kasuo Abe, Minoru Chiaki, Ichiro Chiba, Kamatari Fujiwara, Bokuzen Hidari, Fumiko Homma, Yoshie Minami, Seiji Miyaguchi, Eiko Miyoshi, Nobuo Nakamura, Daisuke Kato, Ko (Isao) Kimura, Saito, Sakai, Kin Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Atsushi Watanabe, Fuyuki Murakami, Toranosuke Ogawa, Minosuke Yamada, Masao Shimizu, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Makoto Kobori, Yunosuke Ito

Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

Features:
New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa"
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
"A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies" (2000): An 81-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Production Inc., featuring interviews with the director on the sets of his later films
A 41-minute documenta
Ikiru [2 Discs] DVD Details
Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono
Language:
japanese
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 143
Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle]
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 037429180525
Product Code: CRRNIKI010DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1952
Studio: Criterion
Ikiru [2 Discs] DVD Summary Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose.

Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to live.

He is completely alone in the world -- his wife is dead, his son is practically estranged, and his co-workers (the people with whom he has more contact than any others) are little more than strang