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Rashomon( 1950)

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The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

Overview

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Toshirō Mifune

      Tajômaru

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      Machiko Kyō

      Masako

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      Takashi Shimura

      Woodcutter

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      Masayuki Mori

      Takehiro

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      Minoru Chiaki

      Priest

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      Kichijirō Ueda

      Commoner

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      Noriko Honma

      Medium

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      Daisuke Katō

      Policeman

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    A review by The Movie Diorama

    10
    Written by The Movie Diorama on Fri Jan 17 2020
    Rashomon beguiles through the torrential downpour of fabrication. “It’s human to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves”. Honesty. Deceit. Contradiction. A crucial part of human preservation is the requirement to lie. Intentional or accidental, it’s within our ancestral blood. The unprejudiced can succumb to the immoral values of deceit, either through meticulous storytelling or scattershot deception. Even the truth can be distorted by one’s self-absorbed ego. The mutually contradictory stories of a bandit, Samurai and his wife, during a police questioning of an ambush, ra...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    250000.00

    Revenue

    117668.00

    Keywords

    • dying and death
    • japan
    • samurai
    • rape
    • court case
    • court
    • truth
    • rain
    • woodcutter
    • subjectivity
    • medium
    • sunlight
    • criminal
    • based on short story
    • multiple perspectives
    • jidaigeki
    • heian period
    • preserved film