Description

A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people give different accounts of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira Kurosawa presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema—and a commanding new star by the name of Toshiro Mifune—to the Western world.

Special Features

• New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie
• Interview with director Robert Altman about Rashomon
• Excerpts from The World of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary on Rashomon’s cinematographer
• A Testimony as an Image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
• Archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura
• Original and rerelease trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Stephen Prince; an excerpt from director Akira Kurosawa’s Something Like an Autobiography; and reprints of Rashomon’s two source stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “Rashomon” and “In a Grove”