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Ikiru [videorecording] = To live / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motogi ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

Additional Titles
To live
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators
Motoki, Sojiro, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-, Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, Odagiri, Miki, Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995, Seki, Kyōko, 1926-, Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988, Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, Richie, Donald, 1924-2013, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

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Language Note
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
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 quietly fulfilled.
Subject(s)
ISBN
0780026918
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.
Second series from container.
Creation/Production Credits Note
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
Participant/Performer Note
Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki.
Technical Details
DVD; region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital, mono.
Source of Acquisition
Wilkes-Barre copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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