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Ikiru

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Awards

BAFTA Awards 1960 - Nominated - Best Foreign Actor

Berlin International Film Festival 1954 - Won - Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin

Kinema Junpo Awards 1953 - Won - Best Film

Mainichi Film Concours 1953 - Won - Best Film

BAFTA Awards 1960 - Nominated - Best Foreign Actor

Berlin International Film Festival 1954 - Won - Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin

Kinema Junpo Awards 1953 - Won - Best Film

Mainichi Film Concours 1953 - Won - Best Film

Mainichi Film Concours 1953 - Won - Best Screenplay

Mainichi Film Concours 1953 - Won - Best Sound Recording

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Ikiru

Director:
Akira Kurosawa
143 Minutes
 

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Considered by some to be Akira Kurosawa's greatest achievement, Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate - affirming life through an exploration of a man's death. Takashi Shimura portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. Told in two parts, Ikiru offers Watanabe's quest in the present, and then through a series of flashbacks. The result is a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, resulting in a full portrait of a man who lacked understanding from others in life.

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Runtime:
143 min.

Country:
JAPAN

Language:
Japanese

Color:
Color

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SPECIAL 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
  • A Message from Akira Kurosawa (2000): a 90 - minute documentary produced by Kurosawa productions and featuring interviews with the director on the set of his later films
  • A 41 - minute documentary on Ikiru from the series, Akira Kurosawa: To Create is Beautiful, including interviews with Akira Kurosawa, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and many others
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

 

 

 

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