Rashomon [videorecording] / Spine title : Essential art house The Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa. - [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2008. - 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion collection . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) .

Credits from English subtitles and book which accompanies set Based on "In a grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editing, Yoshi Sugihara ;music, Fumio Hayasaka Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editing, Yoshi Sugihara ;music, Fumio Hayasaka

Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Kato.

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" transformednarrative cinema as we know it.


DVD; mono.; fullscreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1


In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.


Murder--Japan--Drama.
Rape--Japan--Drama.
Feature films--Japan.

791.430952 / RAS 2008