Rashomon (1950): A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view. (8.4)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô and Masayuki Mori
Language: Japanese (w/ English subtitles)
I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before, but this is the first time I saw the entire thing. For its time, that is said to be quite a different type of a movie. The story is not what happens on the screen, but the telling of it, both in story-teller's perspective and also in cinematography. As in Seven Samurai, there are open leads to this story that go nowhere. In Seven Samurai, all the samurai are killed in a certain way. In this movie, the crime is committed by the story-teller, except perhaps, the (last) observer. My Rating: 7.5
