Only Old Movies - ultimate source of old, good classics from 1930`s to 1980`s: Rashomon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa classic with Toshirô Mifune

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Rashomon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa classic with Toshirô Mifune

Rating: 8.5/10
Runtime: 88
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/

Cast

Toshirô Mifune ... Tajômaru
Machiko Kyô ... Masako Kanazawa
Masayuki Mori ... Takehiro Kanazawa
Takashi Shimura ... Woodcutter
Minoru Chiaki ... Priest
Kichijiro Ueda ... Commoner
Fumiko Honma ... Medium

Description: In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. He tells yet another completely different story. Finally, a woodcutter who found the body reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again completely different from the others.

Screens: