Essential Art House - 50 Years of Janus Films

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1.	El Espiritu De La Colmena	1973
2.	Fröken Julie	1951
3.	Pandora's Box	1929
4.	Pepe Le Moko	1937
5.	Il Posto	1961
6.	Pygmalion	1938
7.	Rashômon	1951
8.	Richard Iii	1955
9.	The Rules Of The Game	1939
10.	Seven Samurai	1954
11.	Det Sjunde Inseglet	1957
12.	La Strada	1954
13.	Summertime	1955
14.	Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot	1953
15.	The Third Man	1949
16.	The 39 Steps	1935
17.	Ugetsu	1953
18.	Umberto D.	1952
19.	Virgin Spring	1960
20.	Viridiana	1961
21.	Wages Of Fear	1953
22.	White Sheik	1952
23.	Smultronstället	1957
24.	Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist	1979
25.	Love Goddesses	1965
26.	Great Chase	1962
27.	Grand Illusion: Essential Art House	1937
28.	Ashes And Diamonds	1958
29.	L'avventura	1960
30.	Ballad Of A Soldier	1959
31.	La Belle Et La Bête	1946
32.	Orfeu Negro	1959
33.	Brief Encounter	1945
34.	The Fallen Idol	1948
35.	Nobi	1959
36.	I Pugni In Tasca	1965
37.	Floating Weeds	1959
38.	Forbidden Games	1952
39.	Alexander Nevsky	1938
40.	Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages	1922
41.	Ikiru	1952
42.	The Importance Of Being Earnest	1952
43.	Ivan The Terrible: Part 2	1958
44.	Le Jour Se Lève	1939
45.	Jules Et Jim	1962
46.	Kind Hearts And Coronets	1949
47.	Knife In The Water	1962
48.	The Lady Vanishes	1938
49.	Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp	1943
50.	Loves Of A Blonde	1965
51.	M	1931
52.	The 400 Blows	1959

Ikiru

Criterion/Voyager (Mar 25, 1952)

Adventure | Drama | Foreign

Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 02:23

8.3

88,414

1 disc

Region 1

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Cast View all

	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
	Yunosuke Ito	Novelist
	Kumeko Urabe	Tatsu Watanabe / Kiichi's Wife
	Eiko Miyoshi	Housewife
	Noriko Honma	Housewife
	Yatsuko Tan'ami	Bar Hostess
	Kin Sugai	Housewife
	Yoshie Minami	The Maid
	Kyôko Seki	Kazue Watanabe / Mitsuo's wife
	Kusuo Abe	City Assemblyman
	Tomo'o Nagai	Newspaperman
	Seiji Miyaguchi	Yakuza Boss

Crew View all

Director	Akira Kurosawa
Writer	Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Producer	Sojiro Motoki
Musician	Fumio Hayasaka
Photography	Asakazu Nakai