Kurosawa’s hugely influential 1950 crime drama, regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time.
Winner of the top prize at the 1952 Venice Film Festival and an Honorary Academy Award the same year, Rashomon concerns a woodcutter who witnesses a horrific series of events: an ambush, the assault of a noblewoman and the subsequent murder of her samurai husband by a bandit. Yet, in the recounting of the incidents at the trial, differing versions come from all involved, raising questions about the reliability of subjective 'truth'.
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.
This film is part of our Akira Kurosawa retrospective, running 10 March to 2 April. Join us in celebrating some of the finest work of the Japanese master of cinema.
- DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa
- CAST: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
- LANGUAGE: Japanese with English subtitles
