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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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5/5
"A biting commentary on deceit, gender roles, and due process (not to mention Japanese culture)."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
94/100
"a game-shifter that challenges all we think we know about truth"
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
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"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
"Not only is it an interesting exercise in philosophy concerning the nature of the truth and how our own individual perceptions alter it whether we mean to or not, but it’s also an intense character study."
Mike Bracken's Horror Films
Mike Bracken
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
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