Rashomon is a movie directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1950 and based on the book In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first published in 1922. The movie features Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, and others.
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Storyline
The story opens with the account of a woodcutter who has found a man’s body in the woods. The woodcutter reports that man died of a single sword stroke to the chest, and that the trampled leaves around the body showed there had been a violent struggle, but otherwise lacked any significant evidence as to what actually happened. The film is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice through different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.
Movie vs Book
Year
1950
Minutes
88
Movie Rate
8.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
Rashomon
Original title: Rashômon
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Country: Japan
Year: 1950
Length: 1h28m
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Year
1922
Pages
29
Book Rate
8.34
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Book
In a Grove
Original title: Yabu no Naka
Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Country: Japan
First published in: 1922
Length: 29 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“There are things in the book you could never do in a movie.”
NOAH HATHAWAY (Actor)
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