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Rashomon

The husband, the wife… or the bandit?

8.0(2,641)19501h 28m7

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

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Behind the camera

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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

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Rashomon was released on 26 August 1950.

Audience reviews

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    The Movie Diorama

    1/17/2020

    10/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    2/10/2023

    7/10

    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/…

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    5/31/2023

    7/10

    **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…

  • S

    Sharpdon57

    9/14/2026

    10/10

    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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