Rashômon

Rashômon

1950

Considered one of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, this Oscar-winning crime drama unfolds as four witnesses to a rape and murder report their versions of the attack. But the chain of events depicted by the bandit (Toshiro Mifune), the rape victim (Machiko Kyo), the murdered man's ghost (Masayuki Mori) and the woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) are not only different, they're incompatible in Kurosawa's examination of the nature of truth.

The husband, the wife...or the bandit?

Winner of 1 Academy Award

JBscale
95
Superior

Film Detail

Genre
Crime - Drama
Length
1 hr. 28 mins.
US Theatrical Release
December 26, 1951
US Box Office
No Data Available
Global Office
No Data Available
Rating
NR
Not Rated

Collection Detail

Edition
Single Disc Criterion Collection # 138 & Digital
Resolution | Digital Platform
iTunes
Aspect Ratio
FS 1.37:1
Audio
Japanese: PCM Mono
Studio
Criterion
Released
November 6, 2012
Acquired Date
May 7, 2015
Times Seen
1 Time
Last Watched
August 18, 2007

Actors

Toshirô Mifune
Toshirô Mifune
Machiko Kyô
Machiko Kyô
Masayuki Mori
Masayuki Mori
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura
Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki
Kichijirô Ueda
Kichijirô Ueda
Noriko Honma
Noriko Honma
Daisuke Katô
Daisuke Katô

Directors

Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

Producers

Minoru Jingo
Minoru Jingo

Writers

Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto

Awards & Accolades

  • 1951 Oscar : Best Foreign Language Film
  • 2008 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #71
  • 2009 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #75
  • 2010 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #81
  • 2011 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #78
  • 2012 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #78
  • 2013 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #93
  • 2018 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #114
  • 2019 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #125
  • 2022 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #150

Special Features

Commentaries
  • critic and Japanese film historian Donald Richie
Documentaries
  • A Testimony as an Image
  • The World of Kazuo Miyagawa
Other
  • Interview with Takashi Shimura
  • Robert Altman on Rashomon
  • Audio Commentary
  • Featurettes

Other Recommendations

User Reviews

  • 8.18.2007 by biglummox (10/10)

Ratings

JB Users
100
Flawless
RT Fresh
98%
Tomatometer
64 votes
RT Fresh Certified
93%
Popcornmeter
2,664 votes
METASCORE
98
18 votes
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
186,686 votes

Additional Info

  1. IMDb
  2. Kids-in-Mind
  3. Common Sense Media