Rashomon - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Daisuke Kato, Fumiko Homma, Machiko Kyo, Minoru Chiaki, Toshiro MifuneDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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: Grossly over rated...
Summary: 2 Stars
A Japanese film from the 50's and winner of many awards including the Best Foreign Language Film at the 25th Academy awards. The film shares the different accounts of 4 witnesses of a rape of a woman and suspected murder of her husband - the 4 witnesses being a notorious bandit, a samurai and his wife, a woodchopper who tripped into the scene and a Priest who crossed paths with the samurai. The 4 separate accounts have many commonalities yet conclude quite differently - and are shared by the Woodcutter and the priest under shelter in a blinding rainstorm. Without giving away the plot line and outcome - the moral of the story is that all men (and woman) can be self-serving/selfish and one sees the same incident from their own unique and self-serving vantage point - yet there is hope for humanity.
I appreciated the director's manner of shifting smoothly from one eye witness accounting to another without confusion. I also enjoyed the cinematography (the rains, the forests, the facial expressions). However, while the film was reasonably short at 88 minutes, I felt that the message could have been delivered in ? the time. The acting seemed simplistic, over-dramatized and overplayed - like a B/C rated Kung Fu movie (w/o the lip sinking). This movie wasn't for me.
Summary of Rashomon - Criterion Collection
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 KeoghBrimming 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.
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