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Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown was his third movie, but it remains one of his most underrated despite perfecting his best ...
Lucy Rick’s Portland State University-funded magical realism film screens at the Hollywood Theatre on June 29.
Rashomon is a simple story where a thief is being tried for the murder of a samurai and his wife’s rape. The film opens at the Rashomon gate in Kyoto, with three characters—a woodcutter, a ...
In its title, Cox’s movie evokes the 1950 Japanese film masterpiece "Rashomon," director Akira Kurosawa’s thriller that examines the nature of truth, employing four different perspectives on a ...
Takashi Miike's courtroom thriller 'Sham' takes a 'Rashomon' approach to a true tale of abuse — to mixed results.
It's not just that Akira Kurosawa's 1950 “Rashomon” brought Japanese film to the west; or that it introduced to us the young, rising Toshiro Mifune; or that its title has become the universal ...
Nineteen years ago, Lake Braddock drama teacher R.L. Mirabal and local choreographer Casey Kaleba worked together on “Rashomon,” the staged version of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 dramatic film ...
It's like a chintzy TV-movie of the '70s or '80s, only it works the social-media circus into the story. ... A He Said/She Said Schlock ‘Rashomon’ That’s Really an All-Too-Standard TV-Movie ...
Akira Kursawa’s 1950 “Rashomon” tells the story of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in the 1950 film set in 11th century Japan. However, the ...
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 ...