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Rashōmon Cover Image DVD DVD

Rashōmon [videorecording] / [Daiei Co. ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; scenario by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa].

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998 (Added Author). Minoura, Jingo. (Added Author). Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918- (Added Author). Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Added Author). Kyo, Machiko, 1924- (Added Author). Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973 (Added Author). Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982 (Added Author). Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999 (Added Author). Ueda, Kichijiro. (Added Author). Honma, Fumiko. (Added Author). Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975 (Added Author). Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999 (Added Author). Richie, Donald, 1924- (Added Author). Altman, Robert, 1925-2006 (Added Author). Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927 (Added Author). Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author). Janus Films. (Added Author). Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Kato. (Cast).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0780024591
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes.
  • Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:
DVD version of a 1950 motion picture, with added features.
Based on Yabu no naka (= In a grove) and Rashōmon and other stories by Ryunosuki Akutagawa.
"Janus Films."
Special features: Commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie ; video introduction by director Robert Altman ; excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary film about Rashomon's cinematographer ; reprints of Rashomon source stories, In a Grove, and Rashomon, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ; Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon, a reprinted excerpt from his book, Something like an autobiography.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Photography, Kazuo Miyagawa.
Participant or Performer Note:
Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Kato.
System Details Note:
DVD, RSDL dual-layer presentation; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Licensed for: home, classroom, library, ILL.
Language Note:
Japanese or English language soundtrack (mono.) with optional English subtitles.

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Subject: Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999.
Murder > Japan > Drama.
Rape > Japan > Drama.
Samurai > Drama.
Subjectivity > Drama.
Memory > Drama.
Feature films > Japan.
Foreign films.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design PN1995.9 .F67 R374 2001 (Text) 30212618 Video Volume hold Available -

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