Details
Ikiru Blu-Ray (UK Import)
British Film Institute
Original title: Ikiru
Year: 1952
Country: Japan
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5035673015216
Image: 1.37:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
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Subtitles: English
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Cast: Takashi Shimura , Shinichi Himori , Haruo Tanaka
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis:
An aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer is impelled to find meaning in his final days.
Additional features:
- Restored in 4K and presented in High Definition (2-disc limited edition)
- Introduction by Alex Cox (2003, 15 mins)
- Newly commissioned audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create – Ikiru (2003, 42 mins): created as part of the Toho Masterworks series and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others
- It's Ours Whatever They Say (1972, 39 mins): a community action film telling of the battle fought by young mothers against Islington council to establish a playground for children on a derelict site
- The People People (1970, 22 mins): intended for school leavers, this COI film shows the vast range and variety of jobs available within the Civil Service, highlighting the ways in which civil servants help individuals, the community in general and Parliament
- **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with essays by Tony Rayns and James-Masaki Ryan, a review originally published in Monthly Film Bulletin in 1959, notes on the special features and film credits
