Special features include "A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For beautiful movies (2000); an 81-minute documentary produced by Kurosawa Production Inc., featuring interviews with the director on the sets of his later films; a 41-minute documentary on Ikira from the series Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create, including interviews with Kurosawa, write Hideo Oguni, actor, Takashi Shimura and others.

Atteint d'un cancer, Watanabe, chef de service du génie civil, décide de réaliser le projet qu'il avait tout d'abord repoussé, celui d'assainir un terrain vague du quartier de Hureocho pour que les enfants puissent jouer dans un véritable jardin.

Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind...

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