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Synopsis
Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying.
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Poster by Courtesy of Daiei, (c) 1950. The author of this picture is Daiei Motion Picture Company (Daiei Kabushiki-gaisha). (Today as Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Inc.). (Public domain).
Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Time Out of OrderMotifFour accounts of one killing, each internally airtight: the form is the argument that testimony is authorship.
Credits
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Miyagawa
- Original Music Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Country
- Japan
- Studios
- Kadokawa Pictures, Daiei Film
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