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In Heian-era Kyoto, a woodcutter and a priest, taking shelter from a downpour under the Rashōmon city gate, recount a story of a recent assault and murder. Baffled at the existence of conflicting accounts of the same event, the woodcutter and the priest are joined by a commoner. The woodcutter claims he had found the body of a murdered samurai thre...
Kichijiro Ueda as The CommonerThe name of the film refers to the enormous, former city gate "between modern-day Kyoto and Nara", on Suzaku Avenue's end to the south.
The film depicts the rape of a woman and the murder of her samurai husband through the widely differing accounts of four witnesses, including the bandit-rapist, the wife, the dead man (speaking through a medium), and lastly the woodcutter, the one witness who seems the most objective and least biased. The stories are mutually contradictory and even...
Theatrical
Rashomon was released in Japan on August 24, 1950. It was released theatrically in the United States by RKO Radio Pictureswith English subtitles on December 26, 1951.
Home media
Rashomon has been released multiple times on DVD. The Criterion Collectionissued a Blu-ray and DVD edition of the film based on the 2008 restoration, accompanied by a number of additional features.
Box office
The film performed well at the domestic Japanese box office, where it was one of the top ten highest-earning films of the year.It also performed well overseas, becoming Kurosawa's first major international hit. In the United States, the film grossed $46,808 in 2002 and $96,568 during 2009 to 2010, for a combined $143,376in the United States between 2002 and 2010. In Europe, the film sold 365,300 tickets in France and Spain, and 8,292 tickets in other European countries between 1996 and 2020,f...
Japanese critical responses
Although it won two Japanese awards,most Japanese critics did not like the film. When it received positive responses in the West, Japanese critics were baffled: some decided that it was only admired there because it was "exotic"; others thought that it succeeded because it was more "Western" than most Japanese films. In a collection of interpretations of Rashomon, Donald Richie writes that "the confines of 'Japanese' thought could not contain the director, who thereby joined the world at larg...
International responses
The film appeared at the 1951 Venice Film Festival at the behest of an Italian language teacher, Giuliana Stramigioli, who had recommended it to Italian film promotion agency Unitalia Film seeking a Japanese film to screen at the festival. However, Daiei Motion Picture Company (a producer of popular features at the time) and the Japanese government had disagreed with the choice of Kurosawa's work on the grounds that it was "not [representative enough] of the Japanese movie industry" and felt...
In 2008, the film was restored by the Academy Film Archive, the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc., with funding provided by the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.
Blue Ribbon Awards (1951) – Best Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa and Shinobu HashimotoMainichi Film Concours (1951) – Best Actress: Machiko KyōVenice Film Festival (1951) – Golden Lion: Akira KurosawaBibliography
1. Conrad, David A. (2022) Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2. Davidson, James F. (1987) "Memory of Defeat in Japan: A Reappraisal of Rashomon" in Richie, Donald (ed.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 159–166. 3. Erens, Patricia (1979) Akira Kurosawa: a guide to references and resources. Boston: G.K.Hall. 4. Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-853-7. 5. Heider, Karl G....
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