Crime · Drama · Mystery
Rashomon
Avg rating 8.9 / My rating TBC
1950 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · With Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura
- Japanese Golden Age
- Art Cinema
- Auteur Cinema
In a ruined gateway during a downpour, three men shelter and try to make sense of a killing in the forest and the trial that followed. Each witness has a story to tell. Part courtroom puzzle, part moral fable, set in medieval Kyoto.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 28m · 88 min
- IMDb
- 8.1 / 10 (195,453 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 98% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 98 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (audience, 2,623 votes)
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