Rashōmon

Resource Information

The work Rashōmon represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Rashōmon

Statement of responsibility

Daiei seisaku ; seisaku Minoura Jingo ; kyakuhon Kurosawa Akira, Hashimoto Shinobu ; kantoku Kurosawa Akira

Creator

• Rashōmon (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
• Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
• Minoura, Jingo
• Kyō, Machiko, 1924-

Actor

• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
• Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973
• Kyō, Machiko, 1924-

Film director

• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998

Film distributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Film producer

• Minoura, Jingo

Production company

• Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films -- Japan
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Foreign films -- Japan
• Foreign language films -- Japanese
• Foreign language films -- Japanese
• Japan
• Japanese language films
• Memory
• Memory -- Drama
• Murder
• Murder -- Japan -- Drama
• Mystery films
• Rape
• Rape -- Japan -- Drama
• Samurai
• Samurai -- Japan -- Drama
• Subjectivity
• Subjectivity -- Drama
• Foreign films
• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927
• Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927 -- Film adaptations
• Crime -- Feature
• Detective and mystery films
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films

Genre

• Mystery films
• Foreign language films
• Japanese language films
• Foreign films
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Drama
• Detective and mystery films
• Crime

Language

• jpn
• eng
• jpn
• jpn

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

Member of

• Essential art house

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Satsuei [photography]: Miyagawa Kazuo ; bijutsu [art]: Matsuyama So ; ongaku [music]: Hayasaka Fumio

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

In Japanese with optional English subtitles

LC call number

• PN1997
• PN1997

LC item number

• .E877 2008
• .R237 2008

PerformerNote

Mifune Toshirō, Kyo Machiko, Shimura Takashi, Mori Masayuki

Runtime

88

Series statement

Essential art house

Technique

live action