Rashomon Quotes

Commoner Women use their tears to fool everyone. They even fool themselves.

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.

Priest I don't want to hear it. No more horror stories.

Commoner They are common stories these days. I even heard that the demon living here in Rashômon fled in fear of the ferocity of man.

Priest A man's been murdered.

Commoner So what? Only one? Why, up on top of this gate, there's always five or six bodies. No one worries about them.

Masako It's you two who are weak! If you are my husband, kill this man, then you can tell me to kill myself! But you're not a real man. That is why I was crying. I'm tired of this farce. I thought Tajomaru might find some way out. I thought that if he would save me I would do anything for him! I wanted you to take me away. I would have been yours! But he's not a man, either. He's just like my husband. Remember, a woman loves a real man only. A man has to make a woman his by his ].

Quotes about Rashomon I like ] pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern ] is ], and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Priest Dead men tell no lies.

Commoner But is there anyone who's really ]? Maybe goodness is just make-believe.

Priest What a frightening...

Commoner Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. It's easier that way.

Tajômaru I thought I saw a goddess. At that moment I decided to have her, even if I had to kill her man. But if I could have her without killing, all the better.

Masako Wait! Stop! Either you die or my husband dies. One of you must die. To have my shame known to two men is worse than dying. I will go with the survivor.

Woodcutter Selfish!

Commoner What's wrong with that? That's the way we are, the way we live. You just can't live unless you're what you call selfish.

Woodcutter Damn it. Everyone is selfish and dishonest. Making excuses. The bandit, the woman, the man, and you!

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

Quotes about Rashomon my favorite movie has always been Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa because it is just that: a story told from multiple perspectives.

Tajômaru She became very pale and stared at me as though her eyes were frozen. She looked like a child when it turns suddenly serious. The sight of her made me jealous of that man. I started to hate him. I wanted to show her what he looked like, all tied up like that. I hadn't even thought of a thing like that before, but now I did.

Priest War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my faith in the human soul. It's worse than bandits, the plague, famine, fire or wars.

Commoner No one tells a lie after he's said he's going to tell one.

Woodcutter It's a lie. It's all a lie. Tajômaru's story and the woman's.

Commoner It's human nature to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.

Priest That may be. But it's because men are weak that they lie, even to themselves.

Commoner Not another sermon. I don't care if it's a lie, as long as it's entertaining. What story did the woman come up with?

Priest Well, it's completely different from Tajômaru's story. So different that her face didn't even show the fierceness he spoke of. She was so docile, she was almost pitiful.

Quotes about Rashomon Rashomon is the closest to "]" a film can get.

Quotes about Rashomon *German filmmaker ], in the film Inside the Edges.

Commoner It sounded interesting, at least while I kept out of the rain. But if it's a sermon, I'd sooner listen to the rain.

Commoner We all want to forget something, so we tell ]. It's easier that way.

Commoner I wanted to hear a story, not one of your sermons.

Woodcutter I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own ].

Priest A human life is truly as frail and fleeting as the morning dew.

Commoner If men ] in this ], what makes you so sure they'll be ] in the next?

Priest If men don't ] each other, this ] might as well be ].

Commoner Right. The world's a kind of hell.

Priest No! I don't want to ] that!

Commoner No one will hear you, no matter how loud you shout. Just think. Which one of these ] do you believe?

Woodcutter None makes any ].

Commoner In the end, you cannot understand the things men do.

Tajômaru I saw the couple three days ago. It was a hot afternoon. Suddenly a cool breeze rustle the leaves. If it hadn't been for that wind, I wouldn't have killed him.