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1950 Crime Classic

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

 

Akira Kurosawa's

黑澤明《羅生門》

"Rashomon"

Winners of 1951 Oscar Academy Honorary Award of the most outstanding foreign language film and Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award

Starring: 三船敏郎, 京町子, 森雅之 (Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura)

The film depicts the rape of a woman and the apparent murder of her samurai husband through the widely differing accounts of four witnesses, including the rapist and, through a medium (Fumiko Honma), the dead man. The stories are mutually contradictory, leaving the viewer to determine which, if any, is the truth. The story unfolds in flashback as the four characters—the bandit Tajōmaru (Toshirō Mifune), the samurai's wife (Machiko Kyō), the murdered samurai (Masayuki Mori), and the nameless woodcutter (Takashi Shimura)—recount the events of one afternoon in a grove. But it is also a flashback within a flashback, because the accounts of the witnesses are being retold by a woodcutter and a priest (Minoru Chiaki) to a ribald commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) as they wait out a rainstorm in a ruined gatehouse identified by a sign as Rashōmon.

The film opens on a woodcutter and a priest sitting beneath Rashōmon gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner joins them and they tell him that they've witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin recounting to him. The woodcutter claims he found the body of a murdered samurai three days earlier while looking for wood in the forest; upon discovering the body, he says, he fled in a panic to notify the authorities. The priest says that he saw the samurai and the woman traveling the same day the murder happened. Both men were then summoned to testify in court, where they met the captured bandit Tajōmaru, who claimed responsibility for the rape and murder...

 

Digital Repaired High Quality DVD

Japanese Language, 88 min.

with removable/changeable English & Chinese Sub-titles

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