Rashōmon [videorecording] / The Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Uniform Title:
- Rashōmon (Motion picture)
- Additional Titles:
- Collective title on box set container: AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa and AK 100
- Published:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Additional Creators:
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, Minoura, Jingo, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, Kyo, Machiko, 1924-, Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973, Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Series:
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.
- Summary:
- The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove, seen from four different perspectives. Akira Kurosawa's meditation on the nature of "truth" transformed narrative cinema as we know it.
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- ISBN:
- 9781604652260 (set)
1604652268 (set) - Note:
- Credits from English subtitles and book which accompanies set.
Based on "In a grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.
Book (96 p. : ill. ; 19 x 31 cm.) included in box set entitled: AK100 : 25 films by Akira Kurosawa.
"AK100D10--Disc label. - Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editing, Yoshi Sugihara ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki.
- Technical Details:
- DVD; mono.; fullscreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1.
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