Top Billed Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Tajômaru
Machiko Kyō
Masako
Takashi Shimura
Woodcutter
Masayuki Mori
Takehiro
Minoru Chiaki
Priest
Kichijirō Ueda
Commoner
Noriko Honma
Medium
Daisuke Katō
Policeman
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Review 3DiscussionA review by The Movie Diorama
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Written by The Movie Diorama on Fri Jan 17 2020
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 ancestral blood. The unprejudiced can succumb to the immoral values of deceit, either through meticulous storytelling or scattershot deception. Even the truth can be distorted by one’s self-absorbed ego. The mutually contradictory stories of a bandit, Samurai and his wife, during a police questioning of an ambush, ra...
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Facts
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
250000.00
Revenue
117668.00
Keywords
- dying and death
- japan
- samurai
- rape
- court case
- court
- truth
- rain
- woodcutter
- subjectivity
- medium
- sunlight
- criminal
- based on short story
- multiple perspectives
- jidaigeki
- philosophical
- heian period
- preserved film