Rashômon

Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Machiko Kyô	Masago
Masayuki Mori	Takehiro
Takashi Shimura	Woodcutter
Minoru Chiaki	Priest
Kichijiro Ueda	Commoner
Fumiko Honma	Medium
Daisuke Katô	Policeman
Toshirô Mifune	Tajômaru

Réalisateur	Akira Kurosawa
Producteur	Minoru Jingo; Masaichi Nagata
Auteur	Akira Kurosawa; Shinobu Hashimoto; Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Image	Kazuo Miyagawa
Musicien	Fumio Hayasaka

Japanese film brimming with action that incisively examines the nature of truth and the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, the complexities of human nature are revealed as a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a murdered samurai (Masayuki Mori), his wife Masago (Machiko Kyo), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) recount different versions of the story of the samurai's murder and the rape of his wife. Told as flashbacks and as a flashback within a flashback, the stories individually unfold, yet none are consistent with each other. No one person recalls the whole series of events and all stories mutually contradictory, leaving the viewer unable to determine the truth of the events.