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Rashōmon [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: RAS040 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese, English Summary language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 138. | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Publication details: [Irvington, NY?] : Criterion Collection, c2001.Description: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780024591
Other title:
  • In the Woods
  • Rasho-Mon
Uniform titles:
  • Rashōmon (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Production credits:
  • Photography, Kazuo Miyagawa.
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Kato.Summary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0461 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050093512

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.

Based on Yabu no naka (= In a grove) and Rashōmon and other stories by Ryunosuki Akutagawa.

Run time: approx. 88 min.

Aspect ratio 1.33:1.

"Janus Films."

Special features: New high-definition digital transfer ; commentary by Donald Richie ; video introduction by Robert Altman ; excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa ; reprints of the Rashomon source stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a grove" and "Rashomon" ; Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon (excerpt from his book Something like an autobiography) ; theatrical trailer ; new English subtitle translation ; RSDL dual-layer ed.

DVD.

Japanese or English language soundtrack (mono) with optional English subtitles.

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