Rashomon
NR

Rashomon

The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

1950 • 88 min • Crime · Drama · Mystery

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Best from age 14
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Movie Knight Score
2555 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 80 Audience · 2552 · 47%

Tamthilia hii ya Kijapani, maarufu, inachunguza uhalifu wa kutisha—mauaji ya samurai na shambulio la mkewe—kutoka mitazamo minne tofauti. Kupitia masimulizi haya, filamu inaangalia undani wa asili isiyoelezeka ya ukweli na kumbukumbu. Ni mtazamo wa kusisimua kuhusu utambuzi wa binadamu.

Violence & peril
6/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
1/10
Romance & sensuality
5/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Majadiliano ya uhalifu wa kikatili na unyanyasaji wa kingono
  • Mada nzito za udanganyifu na usaliti
  • Mapigano ya panga na mvutano wa kimtindo

What it models well

  • Ukweli na utambuzi
  • Haki na usawa
  • Asili ya binadamu

Talk about it after

  • Jinsi watu tofauti wanavyoweza kuona tukio moja kwa njia tofauti
  • Changamoto za kutafuta ukweli halisi
  • Kuegemea kwa kumbukumbu

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Top billed cast

Director: Akira Kurosawa • Crew: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa

Trailers & clips

BFI Re-Release Trailer

Rashômon (1950) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Robert Altman on Rashomon

Reviewer notes

Recommended

**A good movie.** Despite acknowledging the quality and attention to detail, I can't really enjoy Japanese cinema. Maybe because it's so different from what we have around here. But even being so different, we have to recognize the talent of those who have it.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

In what seems like an endless, almost biblical, rainstorm we meet three people sheltering in the ruins of an old gatehouse. Each has their own story to tell of the rape of a woman and of the murder of her husband. It was the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who discovered the body and who alerted the authorities.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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.…

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