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Rashomon ()

Rashômon (original title)
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The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 4 nominations.
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Tajômaru
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Masako Kanazawa
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Takehiro Kanazawa
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Woodcutter
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Priest
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Commoner
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Medium
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Policeman

Directed by

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Akira Kurosawa

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Ryûnosuke Akutagawa ... (stories Rashomon and In a Grove)
 
Akira Kurosawa ... (screenplay) and
Shinobu Hashimoto ... (screenplay)

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Minoru Jingo ... producer
Masaichi Nagata ... executive producer

Music by

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Fumio Hayasaka

Cinematography by

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Kazuo Miyagawa

Editing by

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Akira Kurosawa

Production Design by

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Takashi Matsuyama

Set Decoration by

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H. Motsumoto

Costume Design by

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Uichi Ôhata

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Tai Katô ... chief assistant director
Tokuzô Tanaka ... assistant director
Mitsuo Wakasugi ... assistant director

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Tsuchitarô Hayashi ... sound assistant
Iwao Ôtani ... sound

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Aurelio x. Vera Jr. ... restoration artist
Rejyna Douglass-Whitman ... restoration supervisor (uncredited)

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Kanichi Aoki ... assistant camera
Kenichi Araki ... assistant camera
Fujio Morita ... assistant camera
Gengon Nakaoka ... lighting assistant (as Genken Nakaoka)
Kenichi Okamoto ... lighting technician
Hiroshi Shibata ... dolly grip

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Teruyo Nogami ... script supervisor

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François Vila ... press agent
Anthony La Penna ... voice dubbing (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he knows more than he let on at the trial, thus bringing into question his own actions. But another discovery at Rashômon and the resulting actions from the discovery bring back into focus the woodcutter's own humanity or lack thereof. Written by Huggo

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Taglines The husband, the wife...or the bandit? See more »
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Also Known As
  • Rashou-mon (Japan)
  • 羅生門 (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Rashōmon (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Rashomon (Indonesia, English title)
  • Rashomon (Israel, English title)
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  • 88 min
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Budget $250,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Often credited as the reason the Academy created the "Best Foreign Film" category. See more »
Goofs At the beginning of the film when the woodcutter finds the dead body, the arms and hands are stiff and raised. However; you can see both arms slightly moving. Apparently, they used a real person, and the actor playing the dead person was unable to keep the arms perfectly still. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Papillon d'amour (2004). See more »
Soundtracks Woman's Tale Theme (Bolero) See more »
Quotes Commoner: It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.
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