Kurosawa Classic Collection - 5-DVD Box Set ( Ikiru / Ikimono no kiroku / Donzoko / Akahige / Dodes'ka-den ) ( Living / I Live in Fear / The Lower Depths / Red Beard / Clickety-Clack )

Kurosawa Classic Collection - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Original Title: Ikiru / Ikimono no kiroku / Donzoko / Akahige / Dodes'ka-den
Alternate Title: Living / I Live in Fear / The Lower Depths / Red Beard / Clickety-Clack
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
662 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Production Notes
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1952 - 1970 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa

Written By:
Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Maxim Gorky
Masato Ide
Hideo Oguni

Actors:
Takashi Shimura ..... Kanji Watanabe
Shin'ichi Himori ..... Kimura
Haruo Tanaka ..... Sakai
Minoru Chiaki ..... Noguchi
Miki Odagiri ..... Toyo Odagiri, employee
Bokuzen Hidari ..... Ohara
Minosuke Yamada ..... Subordinate Clerk Saito
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Sub-Section Chief Ono
Makoto Kobori ..... Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Nobuo Kaneko ..... Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Deputy Mayor
Atsushi Watanabe ..... Patient
Isao Kimura ..... Intern
Masao Shimizu ..... Doctor
Yûnosuke Itô ..... Novelist
Toshirô Mifune ..... Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura ..... Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki ..... Jiro Nakajima
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Toyo Nakajima
Kyôko Aoyama ..... Sue Nakajima
Haruko Tôgô ..... Yoki Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku ..... Kimie Nakajima
Akemi Negishi ..... Asako Kuribayashi
Hiroshi Tachikawa ..... Ryoichi Sayama
Kichijirô Ueda ..... Mr. Kuribayashi father
Eijirô Tono ..... Old man from Brazil
Yutaka Sada ..... Ichiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Okamoto
Ken Mitsuda ..... Judge Araki
Masao Shimizu ..... Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Toshirô Mifune ..... Sutekichi the Thief
Isuzu Yamada ..... Osugi the Landlady
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Okayo, Osugi's Sister
Ganjirô Nakamura ..... Rokubei, Osugi's Husband
Minoru Chiaki ..... Tonosama - the former Samurai
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... The Actor
Akemi Negishi ..... Osen the Prostitute
Nijiko Kiyokawa ..... Otaki the Candy-Seller
Kôji Mitsui ..... Yoshisaburo the Gambler
Eijirô Tono ..... Tomekichi the Tinker
Haruo Tanaka ..... Tatsu
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
Bokuzen Hidari ..... Kahei the Pilgrim
Atsushi Watanabe ..... Kuna
Kichijirô Ueda ..... Shimazo the Police Agent
Toshirô Mifune ..... Dr. Kyojô Niide
Yûzô Kayama ..... Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
Tsutomu Yamazaki ..... Sahachi
Reiko Dan ..... Osugi
Miyuki Kuwano ..... Onaka
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Madwoman
Tatsuyoshi Ehara ..... Genzô Tsugawa
Terumi Niki ..... Otoyo
Akemi Negishi ..... Okuni, the mistress
Yoshitaka Zushi ..... Chôji
Yoshio Tsuchiya ..... Dr. Handayû Mori
Eijirô Tono ..... Goheiji
Takashi Shimura ..... Tokubei Izumiya
Chishu Ryu ..... Mr. Yasumoto
Haruko Sugimura ..... Kin, the madam
Yoshitaka Zushi ..... Roku-chan
Kin Sugai ..... Okuni
Toshiyuki Tonomura ..... Taro Sawagami
Shinsuke Minami ..... Ryotaro Sawagami
Yûko Kusunoki ..... Misao Sawagami
Junzaburô Ban ..... Yukichi Shima
Kiyoko Tange ..... Mrs. Shima
Michio Hino ..... Mr. Ikawa
Keiji Furuyama ..... Mr. Matsui
Tappei Shimokawa ..... Mr. Nomoto
Kunie Tanaka ..... Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
Jitsuko Yoshimura ..... Yoshie Kawaguchi
Hisashi Igawa ..... Masuo Masuda
Hideko Okiyama ..... Tatsu Masuda
Tatsuo Matsumura ..... Kyota Watanaka

Synopsis:

Akira Kurosawa, one of the cinema's greatest auteurs, has wowed audiences and inspired filmmakers as diverse as George Lucas and Sergio Leone. This essential 5-disc box set brings together five of his most profound masterpieces exploring the many complexities of life. Included here is the beautifully nuanced Ikiru (1952); the nuclear threat themed drama I Live in Fear (1949); the humane masterpiece Red Beard (1965); the acclaimed Maxim Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths (1957); and Kurosawa's acclaimed first colour film Dodes Ka-den (1970).

Living (1952)
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.

I Live in Fear (1955)
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is for his family to join him in escaping from Japan to the relative safety of South America. Harada, a civil volunteer in the case, sympathizes with Nakajima's conviction, but the old man's irrational behaviour prevents the court from taking his fears seriously.

The Lower Depths (1957)
In a run-down Edo tenement, an elderly man (Rokubei) and his bitter wife (Osugi) rent out rooms and beds to the poor. The tenants are gamblers, prostitutes, petty thieves and drunk layabouts, all struggling to survive. The landlady's younger sister (Okayo) who helps the landlords with the maintenance of the place, brings in an old man (Kahei) and rents him a bed. Kahei quickly assumes the role of the mediator and grandfatherly figure, though there is an air of mystery about him and some of the tenants suspect his past is not unblemished.

Red Beard (1965)
In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by Dr. Kyojio Niide (Toshirô Mifune), a.k.a. 'Red Beard'. 'Red Beard' is a good, sentimental, but also very firm, strong and fair man. While in the clinic, Dr. Yasumoto becomes responsible for healing the hurt teenager Otoyo (Terumi Niki), and he learns a lesson of humanity, becoming a better man.

Clickety-Clack (1970)
Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support their parents by scrounging or by tedious and ill-paying endeavours; schemers who plot or dream of escaping the shackles of poverty.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2012.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

Kurosawa Crime Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD)

Early Kurosawa Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD)

Dark Eyes (DVD)