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Rashomon

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Released: 2002-03-26

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Rashomon DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Fumiko Homma, Daisuke Kato, Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda

Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

Features:
High-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound
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 the "Rashomon" source stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove" and "Rashomon"
Akira Kurosawa on "Rashomon": a reprinted excerpt from his book "Something Like an Autobiography"
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
Theatrical traile
Rashomon DVD Details
Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects
PCM mono
Language:
japanese
English
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 88
Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle]
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 037429161821
Product Code: CRRNRAS040DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1951
Studio: Criterion
Rashomon DVD Summary This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness.

It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan.

The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder.

As the retelling of the trial unfolds, the participants in the crime -- the bandit (Toshiro Mifune), the rape victim (Machiko Kyo), and the murdered man (Masayuki Mori) -- tell their pl