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Name: Rashomon
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: crime, drama, mystery
Released: 1950
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 8.1

Rashomon has an iRankMovies score of 88.8/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Rashomon (1950)

羅生門

The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

Release:1950

Runtime:1h 28m

Country:Japan

Director:Akira Kurosawa

Language:Japanese

Genre

CrimeDramaMystery

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Keywords

Dying And DeathJapanSamuraiRapeCourt CaseCourtTruthRain

iRank89

Rashomon rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 195K votes

Rotten Tomatoes98%

Metacritic98%

TMDb8.037/10· 3K votes

With 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 98/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Cast of Rashomon

Toshirō Mifune
as Tajômaru
Machiko Kyō
as Masako
Takashi Shimura
as Woodcutter
Masayuki Mori
as Takehiro
Minoru Chiaki
as Priest
Kichijirō Ueda
as Commoner
Noriko Honma
as Medium
Daisuke Katō
as Policeman

Rashomon facts

Original title: 羅生門
Budget: $250K
Box office: $117.7K

Our take on Rashomon

Kurosawa's 1950 landmark recounts a single crime — a murder and an assault — through four irreconcilable testimonies, none of them quite the truth. Its revolutionary structure gave cinema the "Rashomon effect": the idea that reality bends to whoever tells it. Spare, philosophical and endlessly influential, it asks whether objective truth exists at all. If its puzzle-box storytelling intrigued you, seek out films that fracture a single event across contradictory perspectives.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Masterful narrative structure reveals subjective truth through multiple perspectives
•Akira Kurosawa demonstrates extraordinary directorial control over complex storytelling
•Groundbreaking exploration of memory and reliability in judicial investigations