Ikiru = To live /

Ikiru = To live /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	Special ed.
Imprint:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2004.
Description:	2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	Japanese
Series:	The Criterion collection ; 221 The classic collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 221. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject:	Cancer -- Patients -- Drama. Death -- Drama. Cancer -- Patients. Death. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Drama. Feature films. Fiction films.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6162690

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Varying Form of Title:	To live
Other authors / contributors:	Motoki, Sojiro. Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018 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. Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN:	0780026918
Notes:	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. Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson. Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki. DVD. 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.
Standard no.:	037429180525
Publisher's no.:	IKI010 Criterion Collection

Description
Summary:	A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
Item Description:	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.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
ISBN:	0780026918