Overview:
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.| Original Title: | 羅生門 |
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| Status: | Released (1950-08-26) |
| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 5 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $46,808 |
| Screen: | Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Productions: | Daiei Film |
| Production Countries: | Japan |
| Spoken Languages: | 日本語 |
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Casts
- 7450: Toshirō Mifune - Tajômaru
- 7451: Machiko Kyō - Masako
- 7453: Takashi Shimura - Woodcutter
- 7452: Masayuki Mori - Takehiro
- 7454: Minoru Chiaki - Priest
- 7455: Kichijirō Ueda - Commoner
- 7456: Noriko Honma - Medium
Crews
- 5026: Akira Kurosawa - Director - Directing
- 7461: Kazuo Miyagawa - Director of Photography - Camera
- 7449: Shinobu Hashimoto - Screenplay - Writing
- 7448: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Novel - Writing
- 7458: Jingo Minoura - Producer - Production
- 7460: Fumio Hayasaka - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 5026: Akira Kurosawa - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
The Movie Diorama
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Rashomon beguiles through the torrential downpour of fabrication. “It’s human to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves”. Honesty. Deceit. Contradiction. A crucial part of human preservation is the requirement to lie. Intentional or accidental, it’s within our a ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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In what seems like an endless, almost biblical, rainstorm we meet three people sheltering in the ruins of an old gatehouse. Each has their own story to tell of the rape of a woman and of the murder of her husband. It was the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who discovered the body and wh ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A good movie.** Despite acknowledging the quality and attention to detail, I can't really enjoy Japanese cinema. Maybe because it's so different from what we have around here. But even being so different, we have to recognize the talent of those who have it. Akira Kurosawa is a ....
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