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The Resource Ikiru : To live, Toho ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru : To live, Toho ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa

Label
Ikiru : To live
Title
Ikiru
Title remainder
To live
Statement of responsibility
Toho ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa
Title variation
To live
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • jpn
  • eng
  • jpn
  • jpn
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 quiety fulfilled
Member of
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art direction, So Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Language note
In Japanese with optional English subtitles
PerformerNote
Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1918-2018
  • 1904-1996
  • 1910-1998
  • 1905-1982
  • 1923-1995
  • 1926-2007
  • 1901-1988
  • 1908-1977
  • 1914-1955
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Motoki, Sōjirō
  • Hashimoto, Shinobu
  • Oguni, Hideo
  • Kurosawa, Akira
  • Shimura, Takashi
  • Odagiri, Miki
  • Kaneko, Nobuo
  • Seki, Kyōko
  • Nakai, Asakazu
  • Matsuyama, So
  • Hayasaka, Fumio
  • Tōhō Eiga, Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Runtime
143
Series statement
Criterion collection
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Cancer
  • Death
  • Videodiscs
Technique
live action
Label
Ikiru : To live, Toho ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Information from pre-release promotional materials
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1952
  • Special features: new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The warroir's camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; "A message from Akira Kurosawa" (2000); documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa: to create is beautiful"; original theatrical trailer; improved subtitle translation
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
883835
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed.
Extent
2 videodiscs (143 min.)
Isbn
9780780026919
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
037429180525
Other physical details
sd., b&w
Publisher number
IKI010
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 883835
  • (OCoLC)53784305
System details
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation (1.33:1); mono
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Ikiru : To live, Toho ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Akira Kurosawa ; director, Akira Kurosawa
Publication
Note
  • Information from pre-release promotional materials
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1952
  • Special features: new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; audio commentary by Stephen Price, author of The warroir's camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa; "A message from Akira Kurosawa" (2000); documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa: to create is beautiful"; original theatrical trailer; improved subtitle translation
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
black and white
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
883835
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Special ed.
Extent
2 videodiscs (143 min.)
Isbn
9780780026919
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
037429180525
Other physical details
sd., b&w
Publisher number
IKI010
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 883835
  • (OCoLC)53784305
System details
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation (1.33:1); mono
Video recording format
DVD

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