Rashōmon = Rashomon / [Daiei Co. Ltd.] ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Format:

• Video

Author/Creator:

• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927. Yabu no naka, author.

Contributor:

• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, adapter, screenwriter, director.
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, adapter, screenwriter.
• Minoura, Jingo, producer.
• Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999, director of photography.
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, actor.
• Kyō, Machiko, 1924-2019, actor.
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, actor.
• Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973, actor.
• Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999, actor.
• Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, composer.
• Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha, producer.

Language:

• English
• Japanese
• Turkish

Subjects (All):

• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927--Film adaptations.
• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927.
• Murder--Japan--Drama.
• Rape--Japan--Drama.
• Rape.
• Murder.
• Japan.

Genre:

• Film adaptations.
• Detective and mystery films.
• Feature films.
• Motion pictures, Japanese.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
• monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Turkey?] : [publisher not identified], [2009?]

Language Note:

In Japanese; optional subtitles in English or Turkish.

System Details:

• DVD, PAL, Region 2; mono.
• digital
• optical
• mono
• PAL
• video file
• DVD video
• region 2

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.

Participant:

Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki.

Credits:

Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa; editor, Akira Kurosawa; music, Fumio Hayasaka.

Notes:

• Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1950.
• Based on Yabu no naka = [In a grove / by] Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
• Cataloged from English subtitles, container, and information in cataloging for other releases of this title.
• Special features: theatrical trailer for a Japanese re-release; "Robert Altman on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon" (ca. 7 min. ; English with Turkish subtitles); [Kazuo Miyagawa on Rashomon] (ca. 12 min. ; Japanese with Turkish subtitles); original Japanese theatrical trailers for six other films by Kurosawa.
• Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

Related Work:

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927. Yabu no naka, author.

OCLC:

688627999