Public Reel

RASHOMON

rom four points of view. Setting: Kyoto, Japan, in the Middle Ages. Credits: Producer, Jingo Minoura; director, Akira Kurosawa; scenario, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto; music, Fumio Hayasaka; editor, Shigeo Nishida. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki

Registration LP1630 Renewed

Term began
1952-01-07
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE53960 filed 1980-03-04 by Daiei Film Distribution Company, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6951436)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE53960 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Daiei Film Distribution Company, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-03-04
Original cited
LP1630 / 1952-01-07
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6951436: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE53960, registered 1980-03-04, for original registration LP1630 published 1952-01-07.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 15540–15553.

bandit are reported from four points of 
view. Setting: Kyoto, Japan, in the Middle 
Ages. 

Credits: Producer, Jingo Minoura; direc- 
tor, Akira Kurosawa; scenario, Akira 
Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto; music, 
Fumio Hayasaka; editor, Shigeo Nishida. 
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, 
Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru 
Chiaki. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 7Jan52; 
LP1630. 

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