Shimura Takashi, Odagiri Miki, Kaneko Nobuo, Seki Kyōko. 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. "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.
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.
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 221 The classic collection
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