Kichijiro Ueda,
Machiko Kyo,
Masayuki Mori,
Minoru Chiaki,
Takashi Shimura
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A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
DVD Release Date: March 26, 2002
Stats: 2,252 reviews
A story of what happens when an event witnessed by four different people is described in completely different ways, and someone's life is at stake in the telling. One of Kurosawa's best.
UPDATE: Just saw this again on a HD television. Even though the film obviously wasn't film...( read more)
Rashomon is visually stunning, particularly the composition of the court hearing scenes and the scenes with the three men sheltering from the rain. It's not my favourite Kurosawa film but it's probably my favourite Toshiro Mifune performance (although I love him in everything he'...( read more)
i liked this film a lot. this is considered one of kurosawas 5 greatest films, and i wouldnt even put it in my top 8 of his, but it was still very good. i think most respect this film so much because it was the film that catapulted kurosawa to stardom, and i can see how. mifun...( read more)
The film that woke up the world to Japanese cinema, this is a still-effective 'gimmick' melodrama about a rape-murder seen from four different viewpoints, each wildly different. The abused wife, the embittered husband and the lecherous bandit all get to tell their stories - the h...( read more)
Ambiguous in its conclusion- Who's story do you trust? What a way to explore an event or theme though! Great illustration of the metaphysical allegory of several blindfolded men feeling different parts of an elephant and not being able to agree on what it is that they are feeli...( read more)
An intriguing mystery masterly crafted by Kurosawa, showing how much about human nature can be hidden in several versions of the same story, each told by one different person involved.
The movie is rightfully hailed as the pioneer for a lot of filmmaking devices, especially the multiple viewpoint narrative. The variety of testimonies by different people, all with different motivations, are interwoven in a masterfully crafted screenplay that comment about the hu...( read more)
Maybe I'm too picky, but I just can't understand why is this so well regarded.
Sure, the story is told in an unique way and was innovative at the time ( I only guess, I don't know for a fact) but the rest of the movie didn't blow my mind. The acting in pretty terrible, Mifume's p...( read more)
This is the movie that introduced Akira Kurosawa to Western audiences. It's a timeless classic and rightly so with a great storyline. Any fan of Asian cinema should watch this.
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