Ikiru : To live

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Label

Ikiru : To live

Title remainder

To live

Statement of responsibility

Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motogi ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; cinematography by Asakazu Nakai ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

Title variation

To live

Creator

• Ikiru (Motion picture : 1952)

Contributor

• Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.
• Odagiri, Miki.
• Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995
• Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
• Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985.
• Seki, Kyōko, 1926-
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
• Urabe, Kumeko, 1902-1989.
• Janus Films
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-
• Himori, Shinʼichi, 1907-1959.
• Kobori, Makoto.
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
• Motoki, Sōjirō
• Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971.

Actor

• Kobori, Makoto.
• Urabe, Kumeko, 1902-1989.
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
• Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985.
• Seki, Kyōko, 1926-
• Odagiri, Miki.
• Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971.
• Himori, Shinʼichi, 1907-1959.
• Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995

Cinematographer

• Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.

Director

• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Producer

• Motoki, Sōjirō

Screenwriter

• Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-

Subject

• Cancer -- Patients -- Japan -- Drama
• Death -- Japan -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films -- Japan

Genre

• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• jpn
• eng
• jpn
• jpn

Summary

Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled

Related

• AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa

Member of

• AK100 (Criterion Collection (Firm)), disc 12
• 25 films by Akira Kurosawa

Cataloging source

NDD

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music by Fumio Hayasaka ; production design, Takashi Matsuyama

Language note

In Japanese with optional subtitles in English

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.I426 2009

PerformerNote

Takashi Shimura, Nabuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Makoto Kobori, Kumeko Urabe, Yoshie Minami, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minosuke Yamada, Haruo Tanaka, Bokuzen Hidari, Shinichi Himori

Runtime

143

Series statement

• AK100
• 25 films by Akira Kurosawa

Series volume

[disc 12]

Target audience

general

Technique

live action