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| Rashomon | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Screenplay by |
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| Based on | "In a Grove" and "Rashōmon" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
| Produced by | Jingo Minoru |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Edited by | Shigeo Nishida |
| Music by | Fumio Hayasaka |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Daiei |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥20–35 million[a] |
| Box office | $700,000+ (overseas)[1] |
Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 jidaigeki drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest, the plot and characters are based upon Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story based on "Rashōmon", another short story by Akutagawa. Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying.[4]
The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative and contradictory versions of the same incident. Rashomon was the first Japanese film to receive a significant international reception;[5][6] it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, was given an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards in 1952, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. The Rashomon effect is named after the film.
- ^ a b "Issues 11-17". Business Japan. Vol. 55. Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. 1952. p. 164. Retrieved July 26, 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ Robertson, Patrick (1991). The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-558-59236-0.
- ^ Galbraith, Stuart IV (2002). The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. Faber and Faber. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-571-19982-2.
- ^ "Akira Kurosawa Rashomon". www.cinematoday.jp (in Japanese). December 19, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: A Short History of Film. Rutgers University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780813544755, p. 203
- ^ Catherine Russell: Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781441107770, chapter 4 The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
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