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Rashomon

August 2023

  • Machiko Kyō and Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon

    Stream team
    Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa’s truly daring film is still electrifying

  • Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Buñuel.

    20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!

May 2019

  • Machiko Kyo, right, and Masayuki Mori in Rashomon, 1951.

    Machiko Kyo obituary

    Actor who played the wife of a samurai warrior in Rashomon, one of the great classics of Japanese cinema

July 2018

  • Rashomon, 1950, starring Toshiro Mifune. Shinobu Hashimoto co-wrote it with the film’s director Akira Kurosawa. It was based on a 1922 short story, In a Grove.

    Shinobu Hashimoto obituary

    Japanese screenwriter best known for the the film classics Rashomon and Seven Samurai

October 2012

  • Kurosawa's film Rashômon

    Shortcuts
    Michael Gove on 'plebgate': why it's like the film Rashômon

    Gove referenced the 1950s Japanese classic when coming to ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell's defence. Can the film's plot be applied elsewhere in politics?

October 2010

  • Toshiro Mifune and Daisuke Kato in Rashomon

    The 25 best crime films of all time
    Rashomon: No 5 best crime film of all time

    Akira Kurosawa, 1950

June 2010

  • Rashômon

  • Rashomon, 1950.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Granger/REX/Shutterstock (8735417a)
Rashomon, 1950. Masayuki Mori (Left) And Toshiro Mifune In A Scene From The Japanese Film 'Rashomon,' Directed By Akira Kurosawa, 1950.
Rashomon, 1950.

    Rashômon review – Akira Kurosawa’s study of justice is uniquely disturbing drama

October 2008

  • Rashomon

    Phelim O'Neill: Shone a spotlight on Japanese cinema that has not dimmed in the years since

March 2006

  • Philip French's DVD club
    Rashomon

    Philip French: Rashomon awakened the West's interest in Asian cinema of the past and made us receptive to it in the future.

October 2004

  • Adaptation of the week
    Perspectives on a Japanese classic

    Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950)

November 2001

  • Video releases

    Pearl Harbor | Rashomon

October 2001

  • Video releases

    Goodbye Charlie Bright | The Terminator 2 - Judgement Day | Rashomon | The Mexican

July 2001

  • De Niro plays it for laughs

    Plus: Philip Kaufman lines up Hitchcock remake; Rashomon update on the cards; Marlon Brando pays tribute to Jacko

August 1999

  • Kazuo Miyagawa

    Rashomon, winner of the 1951 Golden Lion at Venice and subsequently the first Japanese film to be shown widely in the west, not only brought its director, Akira Kurosawa, international fame, but also gained a reputation for its cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa, who has died aged 91.
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