Rashomon

1950 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 88 min · Japan

One crime, four truths, no easy answers.

Rashomon 1950
Details
Ease
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Genre
Drama

The guide

Rashomon builds a mystery from accounts that overlap, contradict, and reshape one another. The question is not simply which version is correct, but how pride, fear, and desire enter every act of remembering. Akira Kurosawa gives this uncertainty physical energy through moving light, restless camera work, and forceful performances. The result is philosophical without losing the pull of a gripping story.

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