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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 12

Cast Toshiro Mifune Machiko Kyo Massayuki Mori Takeshi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Kichijiro Ueda

Directors Akira Kurosawa

Screenwriters Shinobu Hashimoto Akira Kurosawa

Running Time 90 minutes

Rashomon
Kurosawa's multi-viewpoint trial drama.

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Plot
In the woods, the bandit Tajomaru rapes Masako and then murders her husband. At a trial, all three give self-serving accounts of the incident. Later, a woodcutter who has witnessed the crimes gives another, more objective view of what happened.

Verdict
Kurosawa is always worth a look but this is a particularclassic that has influenced so much to come, it's almost essential.


Reviewed by Kim Newman

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