Rashomon - Criterion Collection

Rashomon - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa

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Actor: Machiko Ky?, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshir? Mifune
Director: 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, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

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Movie Review: One of the best movies
Summary: 5 Stars

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Few classics in the cinematic world achieve such rare levels of cult status. This movie has not just inspired many movies, series and plays but also finds mention in literature. The beauty of the movie comes from the way how everybody's truth and lies differ. The truth is never found eventually because the truth is all dependent on the individuals and all of them are convicts in some way or the other. The guilt in each individual as well as the attempt to save themselves determines the stories. The movie actually throws up a very important question that if the essential data is kept intact the interpretation is completely dependent on the stakeholders. A masterpiece that has been around for over 50 years and even today anyone watching world movies will find it extremely enjoyable. Must watch

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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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