2 options
Rashōmon = Rashomon / [Daiei Co. Ltd.] ; produced by Jingo Minoura ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
LIBRA DVD/PAL 018 148
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD/PAL 016 381
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927. Yabu no naka, author.
- 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.
- OCLC:
- 688627999
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.