The title of 1950’s Rashomon is invoked whenever a filmmaker depicts the same event from multiple, often contradictory points of view. But despite having contributed a term to the cinematic lexicon, ...

1950 was a quiet but decisive turning point in film history. The optimism of the postwar years was giving way to cynicism, introspection, and moral ambiguity. At the same time, filmmakers outside ...

Kurosawa’s brilliant 1950 film, which put him firmly on the map, doesn’t seem to have dated a bit. Telling the story of a brutal rape and murder from multiple points of view, even utilizing different ...

One of my favorite films of all time is the 1950 Kurosawa classic Rashomon. In this movie, a horrible crime is committed in the woods of Japan, and we see it recounted from the point of view of each ...

When did truth become unreliable? At what point did an event unfolding in reality become just another opinion? When did we stop agreeing about what just happened? You could say it was the moment that ...

History is riddled with two alternating phases: the times when revolutions take place and the times that freewheel across the landscapes created by those revolutions. The 1950s fall into the first ...

Quotes about Rashomon: [[Human; [honest; [lies; [feel; [people; [sinful; [flattering; [falsehood; [dies; [Egoism; [birth; [redeem; [strange; [ego; [understand; [human ...