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Rashomon [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, c2002.

Criterion collection 138.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (88 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Based on the stories "In a grove" and "Rashomon" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.

Special features: New 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" ; theatrical trailer ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.

Special features (2012 Special edition): New digital restoration ; audio commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie ; Interview with director Robert Altman about Rashomon ; excerpts from The World of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary on Rashomon's cinematographer ; A testimony as an image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew ; archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura ; original and rerelease trailer ; PLUS: booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince; an excerpt from director Akira Kurosawa's "Something like an autobiography"; and reprints of Rashomon's two source stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "Rashomon" and "In a Grove".

1.33:1 (full frame) aspect ratio ; 2012 edition: 1.37:1 aspect ratio.

In black and white.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Daiei Co., Ltd. ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura.

Winner of an Honorary Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1951.

Japanese films.

Psychological thriller films.

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

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927. Rashōmon and other stories. English.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997

Kyo, Machiko, 1924-

Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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