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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood Flashback: ‘Rashomon’ Won an Oscar and Broke Records in 1952. Akira Kurosawa's movie, which told conflicting versions of four eyewitness accounts of a murder and rape in 8th century ...

If the greatest films of all time are also the most prismatic, Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Rashomon deserves its high slot in the pantheon, for simultaneously encouraging and questioning every ...

An all time classic and essential film, Rashomon has spent seven decades as the high watermark of questioning the subjective nature of truth. Often imitated, even spawning the so-called Rashomon ...

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 ...

The Outrage, at best, is a 97-minute rehash of the vivid Japanese classic Rashomon. At worst, it is a clear case of Occidental death. In remaking Director Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Oscar winner, the ...

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 ...