Rashomon - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
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Actor: Machiko Ky?, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshir? MifuneDirector: Akira Kurosawa
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa
Editor: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa
Producer: Masaichi Nagata
Producer: Minoru Jingo
Writer: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Rashomon: Limitation of the Mind
Summary: 5 Stars
Without doubt, Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest cinematographic directors of all time.
He is a master in delivering a complex message in mind-penetrating fashion. He reveals to us the onion's innermost by carefully dissecting away each layer from the surface, providing us with a clear view of the layer underneath.
Rashomon is a story about the truth and the frustrating difficulty of finding the facts even in a seemingly simple event. A spectator tells the story. A judge must decide on a crime based only on testimony. He finds as many accounts of the crime as there are parties involved. Each story is different. In the end, the judge is left with as many realities as there are people involved. The contradictions of the witness accounts are so irreconcilable that they drive the story's teller mad. Kurosawa reveals the limitations of our mind to grasp actuality. The quest for truth in the story of mankind is a never ending journey.
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Summary of Rashomon - Criterion Collection
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. Toshiro Mifune gives another commanding performance in the eloquent masterwork that revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the world.This 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa is more than a classic: it's a cinematic archetype that has served as a template for many a film since. (Its most direct influence was on a Western remake, The Outrage, starring Paul Newman and directed by Martin Ritt.) In essence, the facts surrounding a rape and murder are told from four different and contradictory points of view, suggesting the nature of truth is something less than absolute. The cast, headed by Kurosawa's favorite actor, Toshiro Mifune, is superb. --Tom Keogh
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