The Criterion Collection
Ikiru
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Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Makoto Kobori, Kumeko Urabe, Yoshie Minami, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara
Year: 1952
Time: 143 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 221
Release Date: November 24 2015
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
1.37:1 ratio
Japanese 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with the director
Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create, and featuring interviews with Akira Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others
Trailer
Insert featuring an essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and a reprint from critic Donald Richie’s 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa
