Rashomon(12)
29th Sept 2026Akira Kurosawa - 1950 88 mins
Japan
Language Japanese
Akira Kurosawa's cinematic masterpiece revolutionized storytelling by pioneering the narrative device of the unreliable narrator. The plot revolves around the brutal murder of a samurai and the secual assult of his wife in a dense forest. Through the testimonies of four distinct witnesses - the notorious bandit, the traumatized wife, the ghost of the deceased samurai via a medium and a woodcutter - the audience is presented with wildly conflicting, self-serving accounts of the same event. This psychologcal drama masterfully explores the subjective nature of human truth, the frailty of memory and the depths of ego.