Rashomon

Rashomon

The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

Rating

4.0 (1)

Release Date

8/26/1950

Runtime

88 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$250,000

Revenue

$117,668

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A masterwork of philosophical cinema that strips away certainty itself, four contradictory accounts of a crime, each plausible and each revealing something different about how we construct truth and meaning. Watching it unfold is a slow but gripping exercise in questioning everything.

Mood

ContemplativeUnsettlingWistful

Themes

JusticeIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Black and whiteFormalistNaturalistic

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Sexual violence

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