Ikiru cover and specs.

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10-28-03 | 02:22 PM

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Ikiru cover and specs.

New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound

Audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

A Message from Akira Kurosawa (2000): a 90-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa productions and featuring interviews with the director on the set of his later films

A 41-minute documentary on Ikiru from the series, Akira Kurosawa: To Create is Beautiful, including interviews with Akira Kurosawa, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura, and many others

Original theatrical trailer

New and improved English subtitle translation

Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=221

10-28-03 | 02:30 PM

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What an awesome cover. Really looking foward to the commentary on this one. Thanks for posting that.

10-28-03 | 02:39 PM

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Wow. Just wow.

Thanks!

10-28-03 | 03:05 PM

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A must have for me. Awesome cover.

10-28-03 | 03:21 PM

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Does anyone know the release date? Did I overlook it?

10-28-03 | 03:40 PM

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January 2004.

10-28-03 | 03:41 PM

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January. Nothing more specific, yet.

10-28-03 | 03:44 PM

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Looking forward to it; thanks inri222.

10-28-03 | 04:41 PM

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Yay!

10-28-03 | 07:57 PM

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I'm really looking forward to this release and I'm digging the cover but what's up with the grid look?

10-28-03 | 09:37 PM

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...but what's up with the grid look?

Kurosawa meets The Matrix?

10-29-03 | 07:37 AM

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The street date appears to be 6 Jan 2004. Go to Home Vision Entertainment (it should default to Criterion, click on the "forward" link and you'll see it listed under January, displaying the release date.