IKIRU
A film by Akira Kurosawa
Criterion Collection #221


Two Disc set, ran through DVDDecryp and DVDShrink NTSC .iso

IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741

PLOT- Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office, but finally decides he can make a difference through his job... After Watanabe's death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe.

DISC ONE- New HD transfer, with restored image and sound. Audio Commentary by Stephen Prince, author of The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Original theatrical trailer. New and improved English subtitle translation. Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

DISC TWO- "A message from Akira Kurosawa: Four beautiful movies" (2000): an 81 minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Productions, featuring interviews with the directon on the sets of his later films. A 41 minute documentary on IKIRU from the series "Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create", including interviews with Kurosawa, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura and many others.

Black and White, 1952, 143 Minutes, Japanese with English Subtitles