Rashomon
The husband, the wife...or the bandit?
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 88 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date: 2008
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually happened - is any of them telling the truth?
Kurosawa's masterful film plays on the subjective nature of truth while unfurling a riveting tale of violence and greed.
The film was the first to alert western audiences to the riches of Japanese cinema, and was one of many of Kurosawa's films to be remade in Hollywood - as The Outrage, starring Paul Newman.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival and an Honorary Academy Award -- it was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951. "Rashomon" also received two National Board of Review Awards in 1951: Best Director and Five Best Foreign Films of the Year.
Special Features:
Introduction by John Boorman
A Testimony As An Image: Rashomon Documentary
Theatrical Trailer
Video Tracks:
4:3 standard
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Japanese mono
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa
Written By:
Akira Kurosawa
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Starring:
Toshirô Mifune
Machiko Kyô
Masayuki Mori
Takashi Shimura
Minoru Chiaki
Kichijiro Ueda
Fumiko Honma
Daisuke Katô
Music From:
Fumio Hayasaka
Director of Photography:
Kazuo Miyagawa
Editor:
Akira Kurosawa
Production Designer:
So Matsuyama
Producer:
Minoru Jingo
Executive Producer:
Masaichi Nagata
Distributor:
Optimum Releasing
Optimum Asia
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