Title from web page. Originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Release date: Nov. 6, 2012. Based on Yabu no naka (= In a grove) and Rashōmon and other stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Special features: audio commentary by Japanese-film historian, Donald Richie ; video introduction by the director, excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary ; a testimony as an image, a sixty-eight-minute documentary ; archival audio interview with actor Takashi Shimura ; original and release trailers. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Fumiko Honma, Daisuke Kato.
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.
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