Ikiru DVD Movie

Ikiru

List Price	$39.95 (You save $8.70)
Studio	Criterion Collection
Orig Year	1952
DVD Encoding	Region 1
All Time Sales Rank	10356
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

5 stars 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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5 stars 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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Ikiru DVD

Region 1
Keep Case
Special Edition
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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