Ikiru - Criterion Collection
starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki
directed by: Akira Kurosawa
directed by: Akira Kurosawa
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780026919
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026918
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 10725
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1952
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Editorial Review:
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In this film, considered by some critics to be Akira Kurosawa's greatest and most compassionate achievement, Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai) portrays Kenji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days.
Amazon.com essential video:
Blessed with timeless humanity, grace, and heartbreaking compassion, Ikiru is one of the most moving dramas in the history of film. Legendary director Akira Kurosawa is best remembered for his samurai epics, but this contemporary masterpiece ranks among his greatest achievements, matched in every respect by the finest performance of Takashi Shimura's celebrated career. Shimura, who nobly led the Seven Samurai two years later, is sublimely perfect as a melancholy civil servant who, upon learning that he has terminal cancer, realizes he has nothing to show for his dreary, unsatisfying life. He seeks solace in nightlife and family, to no avail, until a simple inspiration leads him to a final, enduring act of public generosity. Expressing his own thoughts about death and the universal desire for a meaningful existence, Kurosawa infuses this drama with social conscience and deep, personal conviction, arriving at a conclusion that is emotionally overwhelming and simply unforgettable. --Jeff Shannon
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- 'How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.'This is most probably the greatest film about life and what it means to live.
Watanabe ... Read More
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- MasterpieceIkiru (To Live), by Akira Kurosawa, is sort of a `lost' film. No, it was never really lost, but it is ... Read More
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- Extraordinary allegory - realization of death gives new meaning to life Watanabe-san, a government bureaucratic drone with a monochromatic life, learns that he has stomach cancer ... Read More
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- Will Anyone Know You LivedIkiru tells the deceptively simple story of a man's final months. Kurosawa was inspired by The Death of Ivan ... Read More
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- Just Another Reason Why The "Lesser" Kurosawa Is Easily the Most Overrated Director of All TimeThis review continues my recent assault on particular cinematic themes that annoy me incessantly, and therefore ... Read More
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