Rashomon

Name: Rashomon
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1950
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 8.044

The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

1950·Directed by Akira Kurosawa·4.2·1h 28m

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Crime Drama Mystery Japan

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.

Recommended by 8 People

“The storytelling and seeing how people see and feel things differently. Everybody's given their own version of what happened. And so it's left to the audience to believe who we want to believe. The germ of She's Gotta Have It came from this film.”

Spike Lee

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

“"It is probably the only film that I've ever seen which has something like a perfect balance, which does not occur in filmmaking very often. You sense it sometimes in great music, but I haven't experienced it in cinema, and it's mind boggling."”

Werner Herzog

Director

“You learn things like, Oh, we have different ideas based on our needs and wants and desires, and we should still try and get along despite those differences so that we don't end up with a katana in our tummies.”