Release Date

August, 26th, 1950

Running Time

88 min

Genre

Feature

Color

Monochrome

Screening Format

HDCAM,HDCAM-SR

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

Screening Format with Subtitles

English (HDCAM, HDCAM-SR)

[ Directed by ]

• KUROSAWA Akira

[ Cast ]

• MIFUNE Toshiro ── Tajomaru
• KYO Machiko ── KANAZAWA Masago
• SHIMURA Takashi ── Woodcutter

[ Staff ]

• AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke ── Original Story
• KUROSAWA Akira ── Screenplay
• HASHIMOTO Shinobu ── Screenplay
• MIYAGAWA Kazuo ── Cinematography
• OTANI Iwao ── Sound Recording

[ Production Company ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

Released in Japan on August 26th,1950 and exported soon thereafter, Rashomon was immediately recognized as signal achievement in cinema. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 and received an honorary Academy Award(Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) in the following year. The project is supervised by Michael Pogorzelski, the director of the Academy Film Archive and a renowned film archivist. From Japan, the National Film Center joins the project to provide technical and academic advice.

【Quoted from 21th Tokyo International Film Festival Program】

[ Contact (International) ]

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