- Title: Ikiru (Criterion #221) [To Live] / A Message from Akria Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies / Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create (excerpt)
- Summary: A long time city bureaucrat learns he is going to die and so want to find meaning in his life.
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
- Year: 1952
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- Format: DVD
- Relation: All That Jazz, Ballad of Narayama, Dead Man Walking, Departures, Hereafter, Ikiru, Kurosawa, The Sweet Hereafter, What Dreams May Come, Wit
- Language: Japanese with English subtitles
- Country: Japan
- Comments: The Criterion DVD includes an audio commentary by Stephen Prince, original theatrical trailer, the film documentary "A Message from Akria Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies" (81 minutes), a documentary about "Ikiru" from the series "Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create" (41 minutes). New York Times 1000 Films British Film Institute Top 250 Films (2012): #127
- Collection: Drama
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- Title: Ikiru [To Live]
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
- Country: Japan
- Format: LD
