An almost uncut version of the late director Akira Kurosawa's first movie will make a comeback on DVD in October thanks to a Russian motion picture depository that kept a portion of the scenes removed from the original work.

Kurosawa catapulted to international fame when his film "Rashomon" won the grand prix at the 1951 Venice film festival.

Born in Tokyo in 1910, he debuted as a director with his 1943 film "Sugata Sanshiro," a story about a Japanese judoka who struggles to deal with the callous nature associated with judo.