Rashomon (1950)

Quotes about Rashomon: [[Human; [honest; [lies; [feel; [people; [sinful; [flattering; [falsehood; [dies; [Egoism; [birth; [redeem; [strange; [ego; [understand; [human; [heart; [understand; [psychology; [time] ] beings are unable to be ] with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without ] to make them ] they are better ] than they really are. It even shows this ] need for ] ] going beyond the grave — even the character who ] cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. ] is a sin the human being carries with him from ]; it is the most difficult to ]. This film is like a ] picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ]. You say that you can’t ] this script at all, but that is because the ] ] itself is impossible to ]. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human ] and read the script one more ], I think you will grasp the point of it.

Quotes about Rashomon: [[Akira Kurosawa] * ], on the style of the film, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie. p. 79