According to imdb.com, there were two American made-for-TV versions made in 1960 and 1961, one of them directed by Sidney Lumet.
Now Spielberg plans to make a ten-part Rashomon TV miniseries.
Kurosawa's 1950 movie was based on a short story by Ryûnosuke Akutagawa. I read the story long ago and don't know how you stretch it out to ten hours. It's a little surprising Kurosawa squeezed an 88 minute movie out of it.
If Spielberg wants to promote foreign films, he could do what Roger Corman did. He started distributing foreign films in the '70's and bundled them with his exploitation films. If a theater wanted Big Bad Mama, Crazy Mama or Bloody Mama, they had to show Ingmar Bergman, too. They should bundle whatever crap Spielberg is churning out these days---the Transformers or Jurasic Park "films"---and bundle them with old Kurosawa movies.
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