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Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa Run time: 1 hr 24 min 7 sec

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. Toshiro Mifune gives another commanding performance in the eloquent masterwork that revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the world. Amazon.com Product Description

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) studied at the Doshusha School of Western Painting, hoping to make a living as a painter. Unable to earn much money, he answered a newspaper ad for assistant directors at P.C.L. Studios. According to his mentor, Kajiro Yamamoto, "From the very beginning, Kurosawa was completely engrossed in separating what is real from what is false."

In July 2006, a Japanese court ruled all Japanese films produced before 1953 are in the Public Domain


Akira Kurosawa

filmography


Isuzu Yamada in a scene
from Akira Kurosawa's
Throne of Blood (1957) (Toho)

Akira Kurosawa directed the following movies:

Rhapsody in August (1992)

Starring: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)

Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho

Ran (1985)

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Kagemusha (1980)

Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Starring: Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Tomoko Yamazaki

Red Beard (1965)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama

High & Low (1962)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi

Sanjuro (1962)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai

Yojimbo (1961)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Kato

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara

Throne of Blood (1957)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

The Lower Depths (1957)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

I Live In Fear (1955)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

Seven Samurai (1954)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

Ikiru (1952)

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko

Rashomon (1951)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo

The Idiot (1951)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori

Stray Dog (1949)

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura

Drunken Angel (1948)

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune

No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)

Starring: Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura

Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail (1945)

Starring: Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita

Sanshiro Sugata (1943

Starring: Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi

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