Rashomon

The laserdisc version of "Rashomon" has a Japanese soundtrack (with English subtitles) on one track, and an English soundtrack on the other. Additional cast members: Kichijiro Ueda (The Commoner); Fumiko Homma (The Medium) Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival and an Honorary Academy Award -- it was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951 (statuette). "Rashomon" also received two National Board of Review Awards in 1951: Best Director and Five Best Foreign Films of the Year. Voted One of the Top Ten Films of All Time in the 1992 SIGHT AND SOUND International Film Directors' Poll. "Rashomon" is the film that established Kurosawa on the international art house circuit. It was remade as "The Outrage," a 1964 American western directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman. The print used for the Home Vision Cinema VHS version is from the Janus collection.