” Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife. Toshiro Mifune gives another commanding performance in the eloquent masterwork that revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the world. “
One of those films that, if you come to it later in life, you wonder how you managed to think you knew anything about film before having seen it.
This is the entire film on Youtube. You owe it to yourself to see it on the criterion disk, which is (obviously) much better quality and which includes all sorts of great extras.
Click the link for the Criterion Collection Rashomon page - including essays, one by Kurosawa.
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