Movies
Rashomon (1950)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama, Suspense/Thriller |
| Release Date: | December 26, 1951 |
| Running time: | 88 minutes |
| Cast: | Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki |
| Director: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer: | Minoru Jingo |
| Writer: | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Distributor: | Janus Films |
Description: Set in feudal Japan, this film presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters -- a bandit, a woman, her husband and a woodcutter. Only two things about the incident seem to be clear -- the woman was raped and her husband is now dead. However, the other elements radically differ as the four participants and/or witnesses relate their own stories (with the dead man, eerily enough, speaking through a medium). As each account is revealed, what seemed black-and-white turns to various hues of gray, leading to surprising -- and confounding -- revelations.
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