Ikiru
Subtitle: To live.
Contributors: Kurosawa, Akira,  1910-; Media Home Entertainment.
Series: Cinematheque collection
Publisher: Media Home Entertainment
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Feature films.; Moving-pictures, Japanese.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Other titles: To live.
Description: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a government clerk spends his last months in search of a meaning to life. After an uncomprehending pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-fulfillment by forcing through his former department the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly.
Notes: VHS format.

Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

Videocassette release of the 1952 motion picture.

Director, Akira Kurosawa ; producer, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinoba Hashimoto.

Tahashi Shimura, Miki Odagiri, Kyoko Seki.