Ikiru [videorecording (DVD)[ / screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Contributor(s): Kurosawa, Akira | Hashimoto, Shinobu
| Oguni, Hideo | Shimura, Takashi | Kaneko, Nobuo | Odagiri, Miki | Ito, Yunosuke | Seki, Kyōko.
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BookPublisher: London : British Film Instituute, Description: 1 videodisc (137 mins.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.Other title: To live.Subject(s): Motion pictures, Japanese | Feature filmsDDC classification: 791.43 KUR | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library DVD | 791.43 KUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00196925 |
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A DVD release of the film produced in 1952.
Originally produced Toho Co. Japan, 1952.
DVD extras include an introduction by Alex Cox and biographies of Kurosawa and Shimura.
Credits: Cinematographer, Asaichi Nakai ; art director, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; editor, Akira Kurosawa.
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Mokoto Kobori.
The protagonist, Watanabe, discovers that he has cancer and only six months to live. He is forced to appraise his life. He decides that to make his life meaningful he must help others and so he wages a one man battle against the local bureaucracy to reclaim a local wasteland into a playground.
Region 2 ;Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono.
Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.