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.
Subjects--Topical Terms: Murder--Japan--Drama. Rape--Japan--Drama. Feature films--Japan.
Dewey Class. No.: 791.430952 / RAS 2008