Ikiru AKA To live (1952) - classic drama from director Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura and Nobuo Kaneko
Rating 8.3/10
Runtime: 143 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/
Cast
Takashi Shimura ... Kanji Watanabe
Nobuo Kaneko ... Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
Shin'ichi Himori ... Kimura
Haruo Tanaka ... Sakai
Minoru Chiaki ... Noguchi
Miki Odagiri ... Toyo Odagiri, employee
Description: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...
Screens:
https://ufile.io/spz8z353
Video and audio information:
Video : 3.25 GB, 3249 KBps, 23.976 fps, 658x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 142
Audio : 94/65 MB (main/commentary), 92/64 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR
Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, German, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Dutch) posters and screenshots included
Double audio track information
This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original Japanese, and the other is commentary by Stephen Prince, scholar of Akira Kurosawa. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)
