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    Release dateDecember 26, 1951 (USA)
    Content ratingNot Rated · TV-14
    GenreCrime · Drama · Mystery
    Directed byAkira Kurosawa
    Plot

    In Heian-era Kyoto, a woodcutter and a priest, taking shelter from a downpour under the Rashōmon city gate, recount a story of a recent assault and murder. Baffled at conflicting accounts of the same event, the … See more

    Cast

    Toshiro Mifune as Tajōmaru, the bandit
    Masayuki Mori as Takehiro Kanazawa, the samurai
    Machiko Kyō as Masago, Kanazawa's wife… See more

    Production

    According to Donald Richie, Akira Kurosawa began developing the film circa 1948, and both Kurosawa's regular production studio Toho and its financing company, Toyoko Company, refused to produce the film, with the latter fe… See more

    Allegorical and symbolic content

    The film depicts the rape of a woman and the murder of her samurai husband through the widely differing accounts of four witnesses, including the bandit-rapist, the wife, the dead man (speaking through a medium), a… See more

    Release

    The premiere of Rashomon took place at the Imperial Theatre on August 25, 1950, in Tokyo, and was distributed nationwide by Daiei the next day. It was an instant box office success, leading several theaters to continue to … See more

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