Ikiru To live
Title:
Ikiru To live
Author:
Motoki, Sōjirō.
Edition:
[DVD version].
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
©2004
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
General Note:
Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952.
Special features: audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The warrior's camera : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; "A message from Akira Kurosawa" (2000); documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa, it is wonderful to create"; original theatrical trailer.
Some credits from insert.
"Presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1"--Insert.
Program notes by Donald Richie inserted in container.
Recorded in Dolby digital mono.
Second series from container.
For specific features see interactive menu.
Language:
Japanese
ISBN:
9780780026919
UPC:
037429180525
Format :
DVD
