LK21 NONTON Rashomon (Rashômon) (1950)

Synopsis
Rashomon (Rashômon) (1950) Film ini menceritakan A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called RashA´mon. 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 TajA´maru, 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 TajA´maru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at RashA´mon that he knows more than he let on at the trial, thus bringing into question his own actions. But another discovery at RashA´mon and the resulting actions from the discovery bring back into focus the woodcutter's own humanity or lack thereof. ??Huggo

Awards: 9 wins & 5 nominations total
Budget: $250,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $46,808
Soundtrack: Woman's Tale Theme (Bolero) (Written by Fumio Hayasaka inspired by Maurice Ravel's "Bolero", using the same background rhythm, and similar orchestration and build-up, but different melodic lines.)


Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori
1951-12-26 (Japan)
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