Rashomon

Drama, Crime, Mystery | 1950 | NR. 1hr 28min
CAST: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa CLASSIC FILM SERIES

This landmark Japanese masterpiece is Akira Kurosawa's cinematic examination of the subjective nature of truth. In feudal Japan, three men sheltering from a storm discuss an incident where a bandit raped a woman whose husband then somehow died. The film's innovative narrative structure recounts that incident from four differing viewpoints.

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Not many movies make such an impact that their names enter into the language. Rashomon is such a movie.

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com

A top-to-bottom miracle of a film, burly in its philosophy and graceful in its style.

Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending

What Kurosawa implies in this haunting film is that in the retelling, inevitably every man will make himself out to be the hero or villain of the story.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer