---
title: 'Rashomon (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Akira Kurosawa'
released: '1950-08-25'
runtime_minutes: 88
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
themes:
  - 'Time Out of Order'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/rashomon-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Rashomon (1950)

1950 · 88 min · Drama, Crime · Japan

Original title: 羅生門

## 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa), [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryunosuke-akutagawa), [Shinobu Hashimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-hashimoto)
- **Editor:** [Akira Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kurosawa)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Fumio Hayasaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/fumio-hayasaka)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kazuo Miyagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-miyagawa)

## Cast

- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Masayuki Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/masayuki-mori)
- [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune)
- [Machiko Kyō](https://cinepixo.com/people/machiko-kyo)
- [Minoru Chiaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/minoru-chiaki)

## Themes & motifs

- [Time Out of Order](https://cinepixo.com/topics/time-out-of-order) (motif) — Four accounts of one killing, each internally airtight: the form is the argument that testimony is authorship.

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