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RASHOMON
羅生門
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Japan, 1950
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story In a Grove
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
WINNER Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion, 1951
WINNER Academy Award® – Best Foreign Language Film, 1952
Approx. 88 min. DCP.
Rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto, as seen by four conflicting witnesses. Adapted from two stories by the great Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, its worldwide acclaim vaulted an already-great-but internationally-unknown director and national cinema to world prominence. Machiko Kyō’s performance would land her a LIFE cover and, as the Bandit, Mifune goes beyond overacting into something so outrageous it could only be real.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Struck the world of film like a thunderbolt!”
– Roger Ebert
“The classic film statement of the relativism, the unknowability of truth.”
– Pauline Kael
“One of the most stimulating and extraordinary pictures made anywhere in the world since the end of the war.”
– Simon Harcourt-Smith, Sight & Sound