

Rashomon
The husband, the wife… or the bandit?
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $250K
- Box office
- $117.7K
- Language
- Japanese
- dying and death
- japan
- samurai
- rape
- court case
- court
- truth
- rain
- woodcutter
- subjectivity
- medium
- sunlight
Top billed cast
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR26 Dec 1950
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical22 Feb 1952
- Theatrical12Arerelease6 Jan 2023
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical20 Mar 1952
- PhysicalMDVD5 Oct 2006
- Theatrical (limited)MRe-Release24 Oct 2024
BrazilBR
- Theatrical161 Jan 1951
CzechiaCZ
- PremiereEiga-Sai Film Festival23 Feb 2018
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical152 Mar 1953
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP18 Apr 1952
- PhysicalDVD22 Oct 2001
- Theatrical (limited)Restoration rerelease10 Aug 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical164 Aug 1952
GreeceGR
- Theatrical (limited)Re-Issue4 Jul 2024
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival23 Aug 1951
- TheatricalNR11 Mar 1952
JapanJP
- Theatrical26 Aug 1950
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD3 Aug 2006
Frequently asked questions
Rashomon was released on 26 August 1950.
Audience reviews
4- T10/10
The Movie Diorama
1/17/2020
Rashomon beguiles through the torrential downpour of fabrication. “It’s human to lie. Most of the time we can’t even be honest with ourselves”. Honesty. Deceit. Contradiction. A crucial part of human preservation is the requirement to lie. Intentional or accidental, it’s within our ancestral blood. The unprejudiced can succumb to the immoral values of deceit, either through meticulous storytelling or scattershot dece…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/10/2023
In what seems like an endless, almost biblical, rainstorm we meet three people sheltering in the ruins of an old gatehouse. Each has their own story to tell of the rape of a woman and of the murder of her husband. It was the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who discovered the body and who alerted the authorities. It was those authorities that conducted a trial at which a priest (Minoru Chiaki), the woodcutter, the widow/…
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
5/31/2023
**A good movie.** Despite acknowledging the quality and attention to detail, I can't really enjoy Japanese cinema. Maybe because it's so different from what we have around here. But even being so different, we have to recognize the talent of those who have it. Akira Kurosawa is a director with a sharp eye and detail, who knows how to direct the people under his command and extract from each one what he needs for t…
- S10/10
Sharpdon57
9/14/2026
I rarely ever give a film a perfect score, but undoubtedly Rashomon deserves it. I first watched this film at the tender age of 8, so 6 years ago now, and it has lodged deep in my head ever since. The film is beautiful in a way no other film is, and the sculpting of each character is simply perfect. It's an idea which I refuse to call a murder mystery, since it's not asking to be solved. For some not knowing …
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