Rashomon (1950)

Cast

Toshirô Mifune
as Tajômaru
Takashi Shimura
as Woodcutter

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Genres & Description

Crime Drama Mystery

8.3 / 10

A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he ...

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Anthony Smith

A great film from the great Kurosawa after breaking out in the film Drunken Angel. Other great Kurosawa's masterpieces include Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Red Beard, Kagemusha and the memorable Ran. This is a definite film to watch. - @Monday, February 19, 2018 2:26 AM

Alex tuchka

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eroupopper

I saw that film in class today. This film is just the evidence of what true brilliance. It was really good. - @Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:13 AM

GREG FREEMAN

A true masterpiece. Kurosawa is high on the list of cinema artists. I recently watched Red Beard, a film I had been dragging my feet a very long time to watch. A nearly three hour film about a doctor in a nineteeth century medical clinic for the poor? The theme did not spark my curiousity, but when I finally watched the film it was far from being dull at all. Yes, it is not a samurai film and the action is minimal but the performance by Mifune as the head of the clinic is quietly stunning as he breaks in a new doctor who feels working under these conditions are beneath him ut is eventually shown how important they are to the community. They save a young girl fom a life prostituion who in turn becomes involves in a young boy caught stealing food from the clinic for his own starving family and leads to a scene that cannot fail to provoke tears It is a magnificent film. It has no real plot but just shows the lives of these characters. I don't think many directors could pull this off and come off as either preachy or boring. In the delicate hands of a master filmmaker like Kurosawa it is great - @Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:55 AM

Daniel Rosa

This was an excellent video! I've been looking for good video content that'd help movie fans appreciate classics. - @Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:15 AM

GREG FREEMAN

I finally got the chance to watch Kurosawa's Red Beard. I was prepared to be dead bored. It is an episodic story of Mifune as the head doctor of a clinic for the poor and a new doctor who has arrived and resents be sent there. Clocking in at over two and half hours it seemed predistined to send me to sleep but it was absolutely amazing. They save a young girl from a sadistic madam and a probable life of prostition. She in turn becomes involved with a young boy stealing food is heartbreaking. - @Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:16 AM

Scott Poston

Thanks for the history lesson Brian! I need to watch this movie again. - @Monday, April 8, 2013 7:51 PM