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Rashomon
Uniform Title
Rashōmon (Motion picture)
Title
Rashomon [videorecording] / [Daiei Co. ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; scenario by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa].
羅生門 [videorecording] / 大映株式會社製作 ; 原作芥川龍之介 ; 脚本黒澤明, 橋本忍 ; 監督黒澤明.
ISBN
9780780024595
0780024591
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
1.33:1 aspect ratio; RSDL dual layer; high definition transfer with restored image and sound.
Based on In a bush by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Originally issued as a motion picture in 1950 by Daiei, Japan.
Special features include: commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie; video introduction by Robert Altman; excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa (cinematographer); reprints from Rashomon source stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a bush" and "Rashomon"; excerpt about Rashomon from Kurosawa's book "Something like an autobiography"; theatrical trailer.
Director, Akira Kurosawa ; writers, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto.
Soundtracks in Japanese or English; English subtitles.
Summary
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Variant and related titles
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.
Also known as: In the woods.
Rasho-Mon.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2005
Series
Criterion collection ; 138.
Classic collection.
Credits
Director, Akira Kurosawa ; writers, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto.
Cast
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki.
System details note
DVD format; Dolby digital mono.
Contents
Special features: new high definition digital transfer with restored image and sound, audio commentary by Japanese film historian Donald Richie, original theatrical trailer, a video introduction by director Robert Altman and excerpts from 'The world of Kazuo Miyagawa' a documentary about Rashomon's cinematographer. Booklet includes the original source material for Rashomon: Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 'In a grove' and 'Rashomon', and excerpts from Kurosawa's book 'Something like an autobiography' featuring hiscomments on Rashomon.
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