Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa, Director

by Akira Kurosawa and Donald Richie

Book Overview

Rashomon is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's films, the winner of the 1951 Venice Festival prize and the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as the bandit, an accused rapist and murderer. At the beginning of the film, a woodcutter, priest, and commoner happen to meet at the ruined gate--Rashomon--outside the city of Kyoto. This tale of rape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813511801
• ISBN13: 9780813511801
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.0"