Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film, in which a crime in a forest is recounted in four irreconcilable versions. Its Golden Lion at Venice in 1951 opened Japanese cinema to the world, and its structure gave a name, the Rashomon effect, to the problem of contradictory eyewitness truth, cited far beyond film.
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Its Golden Lion at Venice in 1951 opened Japanese cinema to the world, and its structure gave a name, the Rashomon effect, to the problem of contradictory eyewitness truth, cited far beyond film.
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- Created By: Akira Kurosawa
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Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto.
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