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羅生門 (Rashōmon) [Rashomon]

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羅生門 (Rashōmon) [Rashomon]

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story ‘In a Grove’, published in 1922, became the basis for the 1950 film from Akira Kurosawa ‘Rashōmon’, one of the first Japanese films to gain worldwide critical acclaim. ‘The Rashōmon Effect’ has become a byword for the literary technique where the same event is presented via the different and incompatible testimonies from the characters involved. 

Rashomon was Akira Kurosawa’s 11th film as a director and his international breakthrough. The story, based on two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, features a horrible crime which is told through various conflicting points of view, raising questions about the nature of truth.

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Film Details

Alternate Titles: Rashomon

Language: Japanese

Original Production Country: Japan

Original Release Year: 1950

Original Elements Held By: NFAJ (NFC)

Original Distribution Company: Daiei Film Co. Ltd.

Production Company: Daiei Film Co. Ltd.

Executive Producer:

Producer: Masaichi Nagata, Minoru Jingo

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writer: 

Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa

Editor: Akiro Kurosawa

Sound Editor:

Music/Score: Fumio Hayasaka

Narrator:

Other Credits: Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori

Aspect Ratio:

Colour System: B/W

Duration: 88 mins

Restoration Details

Status: Released

Country Where Restored: United States

Restoration Release Date: 18 September 2008

Country Restoration First Screened: United States

Lab Image Restored By: Lowry Digital, Burbank, CA

Lab Audio Restored By: Audio Mechanics, Burbank, CA

Archive Partner(s) In Restoration: Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles

Restoration Funded By: Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation

Restoration Premiere: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 18 September 2008

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Golden Lion (1951 Venice Film Festival)

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  • Rashomon Premieres at the Academy
  • Rashomon [Akiro Kurosawa info]
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The Film Foundation; Japan Times

Kalpana

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Kalpana

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A great work of hallucinatory, homemade expressionism and ecstatic beauty, Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (Imagination) is one of the enduring classics of Indian cinema. Shankar, the brother of the great Ravi Shankar, was one of the central figures in the history of Indian dance, fusing Indian classical forms with western techniques. In the late 30s, he established his own dance academy in the Himalayas, whose students included his brother Ravi and future filmmaker Guru Dutt (who worked as an assistant on Kalpana). After the closure of the academy in the early 40s, Shankar started preparations on his one and only film, many years in the making.

Kalpana, with an autobiographical narrative of a dancer who dreams of establishing his own academy (starring Uday Shankar and his wife, the great Amala Shankar – the film also marks the debut of Padmini, who was 17 years old at the time), is one of the few real “dance films” – in other words, a film that doesn’t just include dance sequences, but whose primary physical vocabulary is dance. A commercial failure when it was released, the film is now regarded, justifiably, as a creative peak in the history of independent Indian filmmaking. [WCP website]

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Language: Hindi

Original Production Country: India

Original Release Year: 1948

Original Distribution Company:

Production Company: Uday Shankar Production

Executive Producer:

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Director: Uday Shankar

Writer: Uday Shankar, Amritlal Nagar

Cinematography: K. Ramnoth

Editor: N.K. Gopal

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Narrator:

Other Credits: Cast: Uday Shankar (Udayan & Writer), Amala Uday Shankar (Uma), Lakhmt Kanta (Kamini), Dr. G.V. Subbarao (Drawing Master), Brijo Behari Banerji (Uma’s Father)

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Colour System: B/W

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Duration: 155 mins

Restoration Details

Status: Release

Country Where Restored: Italy

Restoration Release Date: 1 January 2008

Country Restoration First Screened: 

Lab Image Restored By: L’Immagine Ritrovata

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Archive Partner(s) In Restoration: National Film Archive of India

Restoration Funded By: World Cinema Project & Doha Film Institute

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King of the White Elephant

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King of the White Elephant

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Pridi Phanomyong’s nationalistic 1941 epic The King of the White Elephant,

An English-language drama set in the ancient Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya and based on a novel by the influential politician Pridi Banomyong. Made in 1940, as war raged in Europe, Thailand’s oldest surviving complete film is yet another example of cinematic repatriation at work – its restoration was only made possible by the discovery of a 16mm print at America’s Library of Congress.

[ http://sea-globe.com/thailand-film-archive/ ]

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Language: English

Original Production Country: Thailand

Original Release Year: 1941

Original Elements Held By: Library of Congress, Washington DC

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Director: Pridi Phanomyong

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Colour System: B/W

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Country Where Restored: Thailand

Restoration Release Date: 1 January 2005

Country Restoration First Screened: 

Lab Image Restored By: Technicolor Thailand

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Archive Partner(s) In Restoration: Library of Congress, US ; Film Archive Thailand

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Restoration Premiere: RA II 2005

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Since 2012, Restoration Asia has been a showcase for the work of archives, technical service providers and distributors in their efforts to preserve the audio-visual heritage of Asia.

Restoration Asia is coordinated by OWL Studio, and is designed for archivists, scholars, students and professionals as well as those with a shared passion for the preservation and restoration of Asian Cinema & Asia’s cinematographic history.

レストレーションアジアは、アジア内外のアーカイブ、技術サービスプロバイダー、そして配給業者の仕事を紹介すると共に、アジアの映像遺産を保存する取り組みに焦点を当てます。

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