Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha,
Janus Films,
Criterion Collection (Firm) |
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| Other Authors: |
Motoki, Sojiro,
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-,
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996,
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998,
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982,
Odagiri, Miki,
Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-,
Seki, Kyōko, 1926-,
Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988,
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955,
Richie, Donald, 1924- |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | Japanese |
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| Published: |
[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
c2004.
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
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| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
221.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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