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Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Special Edition A powerful, thought-provoking drama about a petty bureaucrat who discovers that he is dying of cancer. Coming to the realization that his life has been a meaningless quest for following petty company rules, he tries to create one thing of lasting worth. Ikiru Reviews: "...Kurosawa opens his story with a deliberate, low-key pacing, although at the end there is rage against the dying of the light..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...Kurosawa never lets us forget that Watanabe's courage is as great as that of any warrior....A tale of heroism..."
-- Barry Kemp, Sight and Sound "[An] extraordinary urban epic with an unusual two-part story construction that turns out to be the right narrative choice."-- Mike Clark, USA Today "[With] storytelling brio, sharp observation, and incredible emotional power..."-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere "Takashi Shimura delivers a fine, understated performance..."
-- Andrew Sumner, Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his moving melodrama continued Kurosawa's revolt against narrative linearity....This is a masterpiece of humanist cinema..."-- Patrick Peters, Empire Ikiru | List Price | $39.95 (You save $8.70) | | Studio | Criterion Collection | | Orig Year | 1952 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10288  | | CD Universe Part number | 6496041 | | Catalog number | 010 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Jan 06, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 143 Minutes | | Additional Info | Special Edition | | Movie Details | B&W; Special Edition; 2-Disc Special Edition |
Ikiru Movie Review  One of the best films ever
This is an early Kurosawa film and it is perhaps his best, second only to Seven Samurai at worst.
Beautiful, perfectly-paced, haunting this is the story of a man with just a short time to live. After a lifetime of futility he decides to make one last act of meaningfulness. A heartbreaker of a film and opne you just can't miss.
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Evocative, provocative
I first saw this movie as a teenage and now, decades later, I still hum the songs. What Kurosawa does with the facial expressions of his characters
far surpasses what the mere words of most "actors" today evince.
This is one of the "deepest" movies ever made, yet with humor and pathos mixed in such a delectable mix as only a few others, like Shakespeare, have
ever hitherto been able to manifest.
This is The Masterpiece by The Master of Modern Cinema.
This is no "action-packed" film. Yet,
it is the most action you will probably see in a film: the action of a soul and the actions deriving from that action.
Black and white on the surface but more color than you could ever evince out of those million pixel computer screens.
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Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary: Stephen Prince - Author of "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa"
Documentary:
1. "A Message From Akira Kurosawa" (90 Minutes)
2. "Akira Kurosawa: To Create is Beautiful" (41 Minutes)
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