Rashomon [Criterion Collection DVD]

In the ruins of Kyoto's Rashomon gate, a woodcutter, a priest and a commoner shelter from a downpour and go over a disturbing trial: a samurai has been killed and his wife assaulted in the forest. The bandit (Toshiro Mifune), the wife (Machiko Kyo), the dead man speaking through a medium and the woodcutter each tell a different version of what happened. Akira Kurosawa's landmark study of truth and memory won the Golden Lion at Venice and introduced Japanese cinema to the world.

Details: 1950, Japan. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Not rated. DVD. In Japanese with English subtitles. The Criterion Collection.

Other editions

• Rashomon [Criterion Collection Blu-ray]