Rashomon

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Awards

Academy Awards 1952 - Won - Honorary Award

Academy Awards 1953 - Nominated - Best Art Direction (B&W)

BAFTA Awards 1953 - Nominated - Best Film from any Source

Blue Ribbon Awards 1951 - Won - Best Screenplay

Academy Awards 1952 - Won - Honorary Award

Academy Awards 1953 - Nominated - Best Art Direction (B&W)

BAFTA Awards 1953 - Nominated - Best Film from any Source

Blue Ribbon Awards 1951 - Won - Best Screenplay

DGA Awards 1953 - Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture Direction

Mainichi Film Concours 1951 - Won - Best Actress

National Board of Review Awards 1951 - Won - Best Director

National Board of Review Awards 1951 - Won - Best Foreign Film

Venice Film Festival 1951 - Won - Golden Lion

Venice Film Festival 1951 - Won - Italian Film Critics Award

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Rashomon

Director:
Akira Kurosawa
88 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. Toshiro Mifune gives another commanding performance in the eloquent masterwork that revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the world.

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Details

Runtime:
88 min.

Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language

Country:
JAPAN

Language:
Japanese

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New high-definition transfer, with restored image and sound
  • Commentary by Japanese film historian Donald Richie
  • Video introduction by 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 trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

 

 

 

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