May 10th International Film Appreciation (Rashomon)

Screening time:19:00,10th May, 2021

Venue: D-hall of MUST

Limited seats due to epidemic prevention requirements，only for students enrolled in this course.

NAME: Rashomon

88 mins| Suspense,Drama,Crime,Thriller | 1950| Japan | Japanese

Directed ：Akira Kurosawa

Writers  ：Ryûnosuke Akutagawa、Akira Kurosawa

Stars    ：Toshirô Mifune、Machiko Kyô、Masayuki Mori

Storyline:

A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he 

Awards:

The 12th Venice International Film Festival

The 2nd Japanese film Blue Ribbon Award

23rd National Review Association Award

The 24th Academy Awards

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