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Usually I don't like foreign films because I just hate reading subtitles when I'm trying to concentrate on the action.However this is a landmark film even in black and white which together is the reason I took 1 star off.You see this film seems to have inspired a whole bunch of "tributes"in other movies and just about any TV series lasting more than 1 season.That is,the art of flashback to something that is seen through the eyes of multiple characters all from a different point of view and who is to say which is the correct??
As we have often heard"History is told from the victors point of view"Many others like"Thats the way I choose to remember it"ect.When this film first was released in 1950 and running 88 minutes,we were still receiving from the biggest war and civilization change the modern world had ever seen and Japan was in the middle as a loser and deeply damaged society.While this movie is not about the war per-say,there is little doubt its a allegory of it.It is set in feudal Japan.You should see this film once if only to see this technique as it was first used.
IMDB summary below and trailer URL follows pix.
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other... Written by Huggo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZ9TguVOIA
As we have often heard"History is told from the victors point of view"Many others like"Thats the way I choose to remember it"ect.When this film first was released in 1950 and running 88 minutes,we were still receiving from the biggest war and civilization change the modern world had ever seen and Japan was in the middle as a loser and deeply damaged society.While this movie is not about the war per-say,there is little doubt its a allegory of it.It is set in feudal Japan.You should see this film once if only to see this technique as it was first used.
IMDB summary below and trailer URL follows pix.
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other... Written by Huggo
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