Kurosawa Classic Collection - Ikiru/ Red Beard/ The Lower Depths/ I Live in Fear/ Dodes'ka-den (DVD)

Collection of five classic films from the celebrated Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

In 'Ikiru' (1952) a dying man discovers a zest for life and desire to do some good after 30 years of dedicated work for the civil service. When Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), Chief of the Citizen's Section of the Town Hall, finds he has only six months to live he uses his influence to cut through bureaucratic red tape and give the go-ahead to the construction of a children's park in a poor area.

In 'Red Beard' (1965), set at the end of the Tokugawa era, domineering Dr Niide (Toshirô Mifune), known as 'Red Beard', is responsible for training new doctors, among them the lazy and socially ambitious Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama). However, through a series of lessons in human sufferings, Yasumoto is eventually transformed into a caring doctor.

In 'The Lower Depths' (1957), adapted from the play by Maxim Gorky, Sutekichi (Mifune) is a pedlar who hides from the police in a dosshouse. Here he encounters many different characters, including an older woman who is in love with a thief, himself infatuated with a younger woman.

In 'I Live in Fear' (1955), at the height of the Cold War, ageing Japanese foundry owner Kiichi Nakajima (Mifune) decides that he and his entire family must emigrate to Brazil in order to find safety from a potential nuclear attack. The rest of the family, unwilling to sell up and move, attempt to have Kiichi declared mentally incompetent.

'Dodes'ka-den' (1970), set in Tokyo, portrays the lives of a variety of slum-dwellers, including the mentally ill Roku-chan (Yoshitaka Zushi) who passes his days pretending to be a conductor on a make-believe tram.

General

Studio:	BFI Pub
Release date:	October 2011
Movie released:	1970
Actors:	Takashi Shimura • Shin'ichi Himori • Haruo Tanaka • Toshirô Mifune • Yûzô Kayama • Tsutomu Yamazaki • Isuzu Yamada • Yoshitaka Zushi • Kin Sugai • Toshiyuki Tonomura
Contributors:	Sôjirô Motoki • Hideo Oguni • Shinobu Hashimoto • Asakazu Nakai • Masato Ide • Takao Saitô • Masaru Sato • Ryûzô Kikushima • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Akira Kurosawa • Kazuo Yamasaki • Fumio Hanasaka • Fumio Hayasaka • Yoichi Matsue • Tôru Takemitsu • Yasumichi Fukuzawa
Directors:	Akira Kurosawa
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Disks:	5
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	15
Categories:	DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XBA-E6F-YLE-3
Barcode:	5035673009390

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