Ikiru [2 Discs]
Features:
- New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
- Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa"
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
- "A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies" (2000): An 81-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Production Inc., featuring interviews with the director on the sets of his later films
- A 41-minute documentary on Ikiru from the series "Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create," including interviews with Kurosawa, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and many others
View menus
- Side #1 -- Movie
- Play the Movie
- Chapters
- Commentary
- Steohen Prince, Author of The Warrior's Camer: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa: On
- Steohen Prince, Author of The Warrior's Camer: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa: Off
- Trailer
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles: On
- English Subtitles: Off
- Side #2 -- Supplements
- A Message from Akira Kurosawa
- Play
- Akira Kurosawa: It's Wonderful to Create
- Play
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles: On
- English Subtitles: Off
View chapters
- Side #1 -- Movie
- 1. Credits [2:21]
- 2. The Main Character [4:11]
- 3. Runaround [3:53]
- 4. An Unusual Absence [1:29]
- 5. Amateur Prognosis [3:12]
- 6. Professional Prognosis [3:08]
- 7. Home [4:08]
- 8. Memories [8:01]
- 9. Whereabouts Unknown [2:42]
- 10. A Sympathetic Ear [9:43]
- 11. Night on the Town [14:52]
- 12. Thirty Years for What? [9:29]
- 13. An Afternoon Together [3:57]
- 14. Unwrapping the Mummy [4:47]
- 15. Father & Son Confrontation [3:31]
- 16. Last Date with Toyo [10:26]
- 17. A New Purpose [2:14]
- 18. Questioning Watanabe's Death [4:15]
- 19. A Matter of Credit [4:21]
- 20. Respects Paid [2:19]
- 21. Making Sense of Watanabe [29:38]
- 22. The Policeman's Story [7:07]
- 23. Business as Usual [1:24]
- 24. Watanabe's Legacy [1:40]
- 25. Color Bars [:00]
Year released: 1952
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 143
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion