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Rashomon

"The husband, the wife… or the bandit?"

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NR 1950 · 1h 28m
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Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Theatrical
Dec 26, 1950
Box Office
$118K
Budget
$250K
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0.5x
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4
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Daiei Film
Original Title
羅生門
Original Language
Japanese
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The Complexity of Human Self-Perception
Quotes about Rashomon ] 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.
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Reflections on Rashomon's Cinematic Style
Quotes about Rashomon * ], on the style of the film, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie. p. 79
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