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Ikiru The Criterion Collection

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One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura (Rashomon) beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two-part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2004 by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa • A Message from Akira Kurosawa (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with Kurosawa • Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others • Trailer • Essays by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and critic Donald Richie

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Actors: Takashi Shimura
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
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Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
DVD Release Date: November 24, 2015
Run Time: 143 minutes
Average Customer Review: 176 customer reviews
ASIN: B0141RBHTU
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,668 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #98 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Foreign Films
- #1138 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Drama

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Kyle BunkersTop Contributor: Philosophy

Wonderful Movie

March 12, 2017

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An amazing movie. It quickly became one of my favorites. The story of a bureaucrat in post war Japan dying of cancer and doing something with the rest of his life might not sound like a great movie, but the story really does stir the emotions, and the pace and story are given in a nonlinear format that really works well for the film. You understand how the dying man feels, and you see how it inspires him to do something that will be helpful to the rest of the people. It is extremely touching, very well directed and acted, and just an interesting and great movie.

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Taylor O.

A fantastic film

July 5, 2017

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The first half of the film is noticeably slow. As others have said, this is likely deliberate and helps to build rapport between the protagonist and the audience. The second half of the movie has some of the greatest scenes in cinema history. Every shot is beautifully constructed. It is one of those movies that really transcends cultures and time periods.

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Beautiful Film

January 12, 2017

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A beautiful and extraordinarily well-told story that proves the neither time nor bureaucracy are acceptable excuses not to live one's life.

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It's a Wonderful Ikiru

May 23, 2004

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I don't want to get carried away with comparisons but I couldn't help but compare "Ikiru" to It's a Wondersul Life". Each movie shows a man faced with a crisis who is forced to evaluate the meaning of his life. I suspect that most of us have seen "It's a Wonderful Life" in which the hero, George Bailey, discovers that his life has been far more meaningful than he ever realized. "Ikiru" shows us an opposite discovery for its' hero, Kanji Wantanabe, a widower. He is a mid-level bureaucrat who discovers that he has a terminal disease. As he contemplates the meaning of it all, he remembers a joke he heard at the office in which the value of his work is mocked. Has his life amounted to anything? In a poingnant series of flashbacks to his earlier life, we see a number of scenes that tell us of the two relationships in his life. We sense the sudden loss of his wife but it is the marvelously created scenes of his fading relationship with his son that touches us the deepest. I'm not sure I've seen many more touching scenes that the one at the train station when his son goes off to war. Thus his life has failed at relationships and at his professional career. What can he do with the time he has left? The answer comes from a young lady who works at his office and is wonderfully played by an actress who, I'm sorry to say, was not identified (in English) on the cast and credits. Wantanabe realizes that he still has time to do something with his life and goes about trying to do just that.
I won't say anymore about the plot because the beauty of the movie is watching things come together. As a matter of fact, the way the director moves about in time allows us to piece the puzzle together retrospectively. The funeral is where we learn of the success and the different, often self-centered, perspectives add to the impact of the message. The ending is a reminder to us all that we can choose whether or not we, too, want to make a difference. However, just saying so doesn't count.
The director, Akira Kurosawa, has created another masterpiece of the human spirit. The acting is very well done. Takashi Shimura seemed to me, at times, to be too detached from his role. However, I came to realize that he was acting the role of a man who was too detached from life itself.
This is a film worth seeing. Unlike "It's a Wonderful Life" we don't come away feeling that life's a celebration. Instead, we come away realizing that life's a responsibility. Amen.

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T. Thomas

This is THE best film I've seen in years!

January 13, 2010

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I would love to see this updated, but this is a classic that stands alone. If someone would make a version of this story in different countries, with the same lessons to be learned and the pain of what is involved, there would not be a dry eye in the house.

The protagonist of this film, Mr. Wantanabe is the hero. He stood up against irresponsible bureaucrats, his own family (who were indifferent to anything he had to say), and even the equivalent to the "mob" to get the wasteland reclaimed so that a safe place could be created for children to play.

He used what time he had left to make the last moments of his life greater than the last 30 years, and transformed those around him as a result once he found his own purpose. It is a beautiful movie, and while Americans tend to harp on how great Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind are, they should see this and then get back to us. To me this ia greater film than both of those.

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