Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-201).
Introduction -- Rashomon / Donald Richie -- Kurosawa: his life and art / Audie E. Bock -- Rashomon -- Credits and cast -- The continuity script -- Sources -- The Akutagawa stories -- "Rashomon" -- "In a grove" -- An autobiographical account -- Something like an autobiography / Akira Kurosawa -- Reviews and commentaries -- Rashomon and the Japanese cinema / Curtis Harrington -- Rashomon and the fifth witness / George Barbarow -- Rashomon as modern art / Parker Tyler -- Memory of defeat in Japan: a reappraisal of Rashomon / James F. Davidson -- Rashomon / Tadao Sato -- The impact of Rashomon / Stanley Kauffmann -- The woman in Rashomon / Joan Mellen -- The dialectic of light and darkness in Kurosawa's Rashomon / Keiko I. McDonald -- Kurosawa filmography, 1943-1985