Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō and Takashi Shimura. The film is based on two stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa — . Rashomon introduced Kurosawa and the cinema of Japan to Western audiences, albeit to a small number of theatres, and is considered one of his masterpieces. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and also received an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards. The film opens on... a woodcutter and a priest sitting beneath Rashōmon gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner joins them and they tell him that they've witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin recounting to him. The woodcutter claims he found the body of a murdered samurai three days earlier while looking for wood in the forest; upon discovering the body, he says, he fled in a panic to notify the authorities.
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| Release date: | August 25, 1950 |
| Directed by: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Producer: | Minoru Jingo |
| Editor: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Music by: | Fumio Hayasaka |
| Cinematography: | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Screenplay by: | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Estimated budget: | $250,000 |