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1952 Dramatic Classic

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

 

Akira Kurosawa's

黑澤明《生之欲》

"Ikiru"

Winner of 1953 Bucharest Film Festival Golden Wolf Award, Ranks 459th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time

Starring: 志村喬, 金子信雄 (Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa)

 Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. Furthermore, his relationship with his son has become strained, as his son and daughter-in-law seem to care mainly about his pension and their future inheritance. After learning he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live, Watanabe attempts to come to terms with his impending death. He plans to tell his son about the cancer, but decides against it when his son does not pay attention to him. He then tries to find escape in the pleasures of Tokyo's nightlife, but after one night, he realizes this is not the solution. In the night club scene is when Watanabe requests a song from the piano player, he sings this song, Gondola no Uta, with great sadness. His singing greatly affects those watching him. The song is a ballad encouraging young women to find love while they are still young and beautiful, for life is short...

 

Digital Repaired High Quality DVD

Japanese Language, 143 min.

with removable English & Chinese Sub-titles

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DVD will come in original plastic box with paper cover insert & factory sealed.

Packing cover may differ from the image shown due to different distribution sources.

 

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