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
Licensor
Toho Co.
Release Date: Tuesday, 06 January 2004
MSRP: $39.95
DVD
2 Discs
1.33:1
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region 1
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 Donald Richie