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Revision as of 21:04, 17 June 2003 by Stec (talk | contribs) (miyagawa)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Rashomon (羅生門) is a Japanese 1950 motion picture and one of Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, starring Toshiro Mifune. Based on the story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, it describes a crime through the widely differing accounts of half a dozen witnesses, including the perpetrator.
Because of the film's success, the word "Rashomon" has come to refer to (in English and in other languages) a situation wherein the truth of an event becomes difficult to verify due to the conflicting nature of different witnesses.
Rashomon was one of three films on which Kurosawa collaborated with master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
The film has been remade, officially and unofficially, many times; in the United States a Western remake, credited to Kurosawa and named The Outrage, was made in 1964 with Paul Newman, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson.
See also: Rashomon