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Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Creator
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Akira Kurosawa · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Creator
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Akira Kurosawa · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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- Release date
- 25 August 1950 · Released
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Genres
- Drama · Crime · Martial Arts · Medieval
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Rashomon – Das Lustwäldchen
- Español
- Rashōmon
- 한국어
- 라쇼몽
- Themes
- crime ↗ human nature ↗ lie ↗ reliability ↗ self-deception ↗ self-image ↗ storytelling ↗ witness ↗
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