Rashomon
DVD - 2012
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Fiction films
Crime films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
2012.
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1950; restored in 2008.
Based on Yabu no naka (= In a grove) and Rashōmon and other stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Special features: audio commentary by Japanese-film historian, Donald Richie ; video introduction by the director, excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary ; a testimony as an image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary ; archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura ; original and release trailers. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, (1.37:1) aspect ratio.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Awards
- Academy Award, 1951: Honorary Foreign Language Film.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Miyagawa Kazuo ; production design, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.