Rashômon aka Rashomon (Japan , 1950)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.4
Release Year - 1950
Country - Japan
Genres - Crime | Drama | Mystery
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Synopsis: A crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.


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...


Films Basis - Two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, "Rashōmon" (for the setting) and "Yabu no naka", otherwise known as "In a Grove" (for the story line).


Tagline - The great, exciting Japanese production that brings a new experience to the cinema.


Awards
  • Won Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film
  • Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
  • Italian Critics Award
  • National Board of Review - Best Director and Best Foreign Film
  • Blue Ribbon Awards - Best Screenplay
Lists
  • Ranked #5 in Top ten list in 1950, Kinema Junpo 
  • Among Top 10 - Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 & 2002, Sight & Sound
  • Ranked #22 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • Ranked #290 in The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time in 2008, Empire
  • 50 Klassiker, Film by Nicolaus Schröder in 2002
  • 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider in 2003
  • IMDB Top 250 #78
Special Mention
  • The film led to the coining of the term "Rashomon Effect" in psychology. The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
  • Rated by ~ 51k users on IMDb
Films Influence
  • Other Films - The film's concept has influenced a variety of subsequent films, such as Hero, Vantage Point, Courage Under Fire, Basic, One Night at McCool's and U Mong Pa Meung (Thai Movie)
  • Television - The multiple-perspective concept has also been used, sometimes with over-the-top exaggeration for comedic expression, in episodes of many television programs like All in the Family  - "Everybody Tells the Truth" , CSI - "Rashomama" , Ed, Edd, n Eddy - "Once upon an Ed" , The Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Night the Roof Fell In" , Diff'rent Strokes  - "Rashomon II" , Mama's Family  - "Rashomama" to name a few

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