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Rashomon is a story made famous in the 1951 classic film by acclaimed Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa. Based on a short story by Japanese author Akutagawa, it tells the tale of an encounter between a robber, a traveler and his wife.All three gi\ve their version of an encounter on a mountain track which alters their lives forever. In a series of conflicting statements the protagonists undermine our confidence in distinguishing between subjective and objective, truth and fiction.
Frank Theatre's actors, through their rigorous training in the Suzuki Actor Training Method, are equipped to express, through sound and movement, those impulses which waver on the borderline between dream and reality.
DVD, NTSC/PAL
Year 2000
Length 75 mins.
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2175
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2175
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
Rashomon is a story made famous in the 1951 classic film by acclaimed Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa. Based on a short story by Japanese author Akutagawa, it tells the tale of an encounter between a robber, a traveler and his wife.All three gi\ve their version of an encounter on a mountain track which alters their lives forever. In a series of conflicting statements the protagonists undermine our confidence in distinguishing between subjective and objective, truth and fiction.
Frank Theatre's actors, through their rigorous training in the Suzuki Actor Training Method, are equipped to express, through sound and movement, those impulses which waver on the borderline between dream and reality.
DVD, NTSC/PAL
Year 2000
Length 75 mins.
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2175
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2175
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
