| To Live - Ikiru (1952)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Takashi Shimura |
Kanji Watanabe
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| Nobuo Kaneko |
Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
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| Shinichi Himori |
Kimura
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| Haruo Tanaka |
Sakai
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| Minoru Chiaki |
Noguchi
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| Miki Odagiri |
Toyo Odagiri, employee
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| Bokuzen Hidari |
Ohara
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| Minosuke Yamada |
Subordinate Clerk Saito
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| Kamatari Fujiwara |
Sub-Section Chief Ono
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| Makoto Kobori |
Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
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| Plot |
| Considered by many to be Akira Kurosawa's greatest achievement, Ikiru (To Live) presents the director at his most compassionate - affirming life through the exploration of a man's death. Takashi shimura portrays Kanji Wtanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer from his existence and find meaning in his final days. Told in two parts, Ikiru offers Watanabe's quest in the present, and then through a series of flashbacks. The result is a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, resulting in the full portrait of a misunderstood man. |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Foreign |
| Director |
Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer |
Sojiro Motoki |
| Writer |
Shinobu Hashimoto; Akira Kurosawa |
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| Studio |
Criterion |
| Country |
Japan
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| Language |
Japanese |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
143 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
10/9/1952 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
668 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
9/24/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Criterion Collection |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Standard 1.33:1 B&W |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
037429180525 |
| Release Date |
1/6/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
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Extra Features
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Disc One
Audio Commentaries by Stephen Prince, Author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema Of Akira Kurosawa
Original Theatrical Trailer
Disc Two
A Message From Akira Kurosawa (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 documentary on Ikiru from the series, Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Akira Kurosawa, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and many others.
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