Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Rashomon (1950)
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May 29, 2009 – June 11, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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$11
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Released in 1950, Rashomon left a seismic mark on cinema's landscape and language — not to forget lie-test graphs. Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece about person-to-person subjectivity and fallibility turned Western cineastes' eyes to the East with its inventive, hall-of-mirrors whodunit, in which the truth itself is outlined in fine chalk. The fusion of two Ryunosuke Akutagawa stories, Kurosawa's plot concerns a rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto with four ready-to-testify eyewitnesses. The trouble is, each "honorable" character has his own, equally plausible permutation of the open-air crime. Toshiro Mifune delivers a tsunamic performance as the wild-eyed bandit, capping a flashback narrative that repeatedly wipes the screen blank to begin again and again...
