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Movie Overview
Cast
• Toshirô Mifune
• Machiko Kyô
• Masayuki Mori
Director
• Akira Kurosawa
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Rashomon (1950)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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5/5
"A biting commentary on deceit, gender roles, and due process (not to mention Japanese culture)."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

89/100
"By the end of the movie, we feel our emotions have been rubbed raw, yet we are no closer to determining the 'objective' truth than we were at the start of the film."  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

10/10
"There is so much content in its 88-minute running time that even careful viewers feel their heads spinning when they first see it."  Kansas City Star  Dan Lybarger

A
"Rashomon is a film about the lies people tell to protect their self-image."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

8/10
"Great."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

4/4
"Kurosawa's most brilliant move in Rashomon is never to reveal what really happened. We are left to make our own deductions."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/4
"despite the many imitators, no one has quite duplicated the power and gnawing unease of this challenging film"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/4
"The moral ambiguities of the film certainly are enlightening."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

4/4
"Rashomon is a great piece of entertainment that engages your brain and your emotions"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

5/5
"It does nothing less than demolishing everything its characters -- and some of its audience -- believed in."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

"Rashomon is laudable foremost for its very use of its medium, timelessly engaging, and as singularly influential as any film in history."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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