A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
1 videodisc (143 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches polychrome digital optical full screen HDTV video file Blu-ray video region A
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Notes:
Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952 Special features: Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince; A Message from Akira Kurosawa: for beautiful movies (2000), a ninety-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions and featuring interviews with the director; Documentary on Ikiru from 2003, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kirosawa: It is Wonderful to Create and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and others; Trailer; Essay by critic and travel writer Pico Iyer and a reprint from critic Donald Richie's 1965 book The Films of Akira Kurosawa Title from container Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka Takashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen format (1.37:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural For private home use only Audio tracks in Japanese, with optional subtitles in English
