TY - ADVS AU - Minoura,Jingo AU - Kurosawa,Akira AU - Kyo,Machiko AU - Mifune,Toshiråo AU - Mori,Masayuki AU - Miyagawa,Kazuo AU - Shimura,Takashi AU - Chiaki,Minoru AU - Ueda,Kichijiråo AU - Honma,Fumiko AU - Katåo,Daisuke AU - Akutagawa,Ryåunosuke ED - Daiåe, Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Home Vision (Firm) TI - Rashomon T2 - Criterion collection SN - 0780024591 AV - CM DVD 01205 U1 - 791.4372 22 PY - 2002/// CY - [Irvington, NY] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Murder KW - Japan KW - Drama KW - Rape KW - Samurai KW - Subjectivity KW - Memory KW - Feature films KW - Foreign films KW - Motion pictures, Japanese KW - Cine Japonés (inglés) N1 - 1.33:1 aspect ratio; RSDL dual layer; high definition transfer with restored image and sound; Based on In a bush by Ryåunosuke Akutagawa; Originally issued as a motion picture in 1950 by Daiei, Japan; Special features include: commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie; video introduction by Robert Altman; excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa (cinematographer); reprints from Rashomon source stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a bush" and "Rashomon"; excerpt about Rashomon from Kurosawa's book "Something like an autobiography"; theatrical trailer; Director, Akira Kurosawa ; writers, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto; Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki N2 - 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 ER -