Product Description: One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate —affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura (Rashomon) beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.
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Film Details
- Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Genre: Drama
- Running Time: 143 min
- Studio: Criterion
- Rating: Not Rated
DVD / Blu-Ray Details
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- Available Editions (click links to order):
- DVD ($41.07) - 2 Discs
- Blu-Ray ($27.99) - 1 Disc
- Amazon Instant Video
- Buy from iTunes
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Release Date: November 24, 2015
- Language: Japanese
- Audio Formats:
- Blu-Ray: LPCM Mono
- DVD: Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles: English
- Special Features:
- Audio commentary from 2004 by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
- A Message from Akira Kurosawa (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with Kurosawa
- 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
- PLUS: Essays by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and critic Donald Richie
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