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	DVDFILE.COM: Rashomon review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rashomon is an immorality tale, the kind of story that you were forced to read in school, and only began to appreciate years later.
		Rashomon employs a thoroughly captivating device, in which the typical narrative structure is stretched and defaced.
		Rashomon is the type of movie that lends itself to repeated viewings, making your purchasing decision that much easier.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_4/rashomon.html (1052 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Rashomon
		When Akira Kurosawa made Rashomon, he was a forty-year-old director working near the beginning of a career that would last for 50 years, produce some of the greatest films ever made, and exert a tremendous and lasting influence on filmmaking throughout the world.
		Rashomon emerged from a journeyman period in Kurosawa’s career, when, from 1949 to 1951, he severed ties with Toho, the studio where he began and where he would make most of his films.
		Like most of Kurosawa’s films, Rashomon, based on two stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, is set during a time of social crisis——pestilence, fires, civil war——in 11th century Japan, a period Kurosawa uses to reveal the extremities of human behavior.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=138&eid=212§ion=essay (270 words)

	Wellington Film Society - The Film Idea
		RASHOMON is not a film about the relativity of truth, however; it is about the kinds of lies people will tell to protect their self-image, the most important possession a man believes he has.
		In RASHOMON, we are very quickly alerted to the narrators' highly personal involvement by the style of the film, and so we tend to accept the testimony of each of the participants only tentatively once we discover (during the second narration) that the versions are contradictory.
		The art of RASHOMON requires both a commentary on and a reaction to the contradictory versions of the narrative, and Kurosawa determines to shape that commentary-reaction itself into a narrative, immediately enlarging the scope of the implications of all that we have seen.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /FilmIdea.html (6065 words)

	Harbor Light Entertainment - RASHOMON - Where Truth Lies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The plot is a classic demonstration of the relativity of "truth": four diverging views of a murder and rape, three by the killer and his victims, one by a detached observer.
		Rashomon's impact derives from its view that storytelling has power unto itself, that it informs our view of life and human beings.
		Rashomon's very structure confronts us with the fragility of human memory, the dubiousness of stories told and told again.
	www.harborlightentertainment.com /rashomon.htm (124 words)

	Shows
		Rashomon based on Akutagawa's stories; the majority of the action in the film was actually an adaptation of "In a Grove".
		In the short story "Rashomon," the ruined city gate is a hellish spot, where thieves and outcasts gather and unclaimed corpses are left to rot (and be vandalized).
		Although Rashomon is so famously about the subjectivity of truth that it has become a synonym for the idea, it is less famously and obviously about the nature of truth-telling.
	shows.vtheatre.net /kurosawa.html (1866 words)

	Rashomon Page
		If Rashomon has an optimistic outlook, it is not necessarily because of its affirmation of human compassion and goodness but because of its jubilant celebration of film as a medium of storytelling.
		"Rashomon" is incorrectly referred to as a artful perception piece that does not provide any truth, but rather points out the varying perceptions that individuals will have of the same event.
		However, after the wife's contradicting testimony and the husband's after-death indictments, "Rashomon" is obscured in confusion and versions of this tragedy that favors the individual telling it.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/kurorasho.html (1171 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Rashomon Movie Review
		Rashomon is the film that catapulted Akira Kurosawa into widespread acclaim and recognition around the world, garnering first place at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and later picking up an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
		The one thing that's certain in Rashomon is that a man (Masayuki Mori) was killed in the forest.
		He may have been murdered by the crazed bandit (Toshiro Mifune) who raped his wife (Machiko Kyo), but her version of the story differs greatly from that of the bandit, who has no qualms about claiming that he raped the woman and then killed the man in a duel.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /rashomon.html (813 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of Rashomon: Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I would hold Rashomon as one of those films and in my opinion, it is one of the top twenty-five movies of all time.
		I think Rashomon is best known for how it takes a single event, shows us four different takes on it, and then allows us to ponder the issues of truth and justice.
		Rashomon is presented in a full frame transfer, as intended.
	www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?ReviewID=1992 (967 words)

	Film/Classics: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Samuel Beckett's play, "Waiting for Godot," that dates to about the same period, "Rashomon" is deeply disturbing and lingers long in the viewer's mind, forever casting doubts about an individual's perception of reality and understanding of the concept of "truth," and ultimately the meaning of life.
		"Rashomon" is a brilliant but bleak and very dramatic examination of epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, the need for certainty and its frail attainment.
		"Rashomon" is not perfect as the "happy" ending is too convenient and the music score by Fumio Hayasaka is disappointing as it is sort of a Westernized version of Ravel's "Bolero," and becomes a little obvious and boring.
	www.thecityreview.com /rashomon.html (1396 words)

	Rashomon (1950)
		Based on two short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon is the multilayered recounting of a violent 12th-century encounter between a swaggering bandit named Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune, in his first major role) and a traveling husband and wife (Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyo).
		Rashomon is a mere 88 minutes, yet Kurosawa imparts this brief screen time with more food for thought than most longer films.
		Rashomon is shown in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio, with scene selection, a new English subtitle translation, and options for both subtitled and dubbed English-language versions.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1297&buy=closed&PID=10098560&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (933 words)

	Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the time of its international release, Rashomon took the world by surprise, Kurosawa was already a well established director in his own country but lacked an international status.
		When Rashomon won the Grand Prix at the Venice International Film Festival in 1951, the event represented the opening of the Japanese cinema to the West, and the film itself was regarded as a revelation.
		They are relating their versions of the tale beneath the ruins of the Rashomon gate in the presence of a peasent, who represents a dubious objectivity.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~basement/reviews/rashomon.html (607 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Rashomon: Criterion Collection
		Rashomon is the film that first brought Kurosawa to the attention of western audiences.
		As the witnesses finish telling their stories and the rain over the Rashomon gate clears up, there is a moment of surprise that seems intended to reaffirm Kurosawa's basic optimism and faith in human nature.
		Rashomon is a great film by the greatest director of all time.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/rashomon.php (1896 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Rashomon [1950] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rashomon is a very clever idea which questions the whole notion of truth at ground level.
		Rashomon is one of the reasons that directors such as Lucas and Spielberg love Kurosawa's work.
		Rashomon is one of those films you keep hearing about but hardly ever get the chance to see on the idiot box or at the cinema.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OW3Z (1004 words)

	Greg Smith, Greg M. Smith: Critical Reception of Rashomon in the West
		But Rashomon differs from almost all the Japanese films which would follow it in the 1950s because it was distributed by a major, not a small independent.
		Rashomon was situated as an art film but with the clout and stature that comes with a major distribution contract.
		In the Rashomon case study, the mimetic hypothesis is particularly strong, leading critics to make claims based on commonsensical understandings of general human nature or of Japanese society in particular.
	www.gsu.edu /~jougms/Rashomon.htm (4479 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Rashomon
		Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice.
		Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.
		Rashomon is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=138 (152 words)

	Stage Preview: 'Rashomon' prefigures next theater season at Pitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The current play, opening tonight, is "Rashomon," a popular 1959 adaptation by Faye and Michael Kanin of Akira Kurosawa's famous 1950 film, which was based on a Japanese folk tale.
		This is the third time Goto has directed "Rashomon," for which he will draw on medieval Japan for props and costumes, fusing Western realism with Japanese Kabuki theater and Butoh dance to retell the story from different viewpoints.
		Favorini says "Rashomon" is a perfect fit with next season's theme, giving "an almost pre-post-modern spin to the unreliability of memory." It would have been scheduled next year, but Goto was available only now, so it serves as a precursor of what's to come.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05048/458541.stm (858 words)

	Review: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rashomon, made in 1950, was the pair's fifth movie together, and the film that first garnered Kurosawa widespread international attention (it won the 1952 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar).
		The central tale, which tells of the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), is presented entirely in flashbacks from the perspectives of four narrators.
		All of the narrators in Rashomon tell compelling and believable stories, but, for a variety of reasons, each of them must be deemed unreliable.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/rashomon.html (1261 words)

	Rashomon - A Note from the Playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two of his stories, "Rashomon" and "In the Grove," had been meshed together to form the narrative of the film.
		"Rashomon" was set in twelfth-century Kyoto in a time of chaos.
		Using the Rashomon gate as a metaphor for judicial authority, we set our adaptation ten years after the crime in question, with a central character of a judge who must grapple with the dilemma of the conflicting testimonies from that case.
	www.pangeaworldtheater.org /RA/note.html (463 words)

	#34: Rashomon
		Rashomon, however, is a much different kind of movie.
		Instead of an action movie, it is an enigma that meditates upon the unknowability of truth and the unfathomable pit of human nature.
		The framing portions of the movie transpire at Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, where several people seek shelter from a pelting rain storm and discuss the recent crime, which has shocked the region.
	www.patmedia.net /berardin/top100/34.html (617 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Rashomon
		But so is "Godfather," which bored me. Ditto for "Citizen Kane." Despite the 88 minute running time, "Rashomon" seemed a good half hour to an hour longer because of some unecessarily lengthy scenes (notably the frenzied and seemingly improvised-on-the-spot sword fight).
		The movie shows three main sceneries: the abandoned and ruined temple Rashomon, the woods nearby which bear the tale of the gruesome murder and the courthouse, where the witnesses are testified.
		You get the story told by the woodcutter (one of the three who seek refuge from the bad weather), the Samurai that has been killed (using a medium to let his soul speak), the killed man's wife and the bandit Tajomaru, who is accused of the murder.
	www.cityonfire.com /japanese/rashomon.html (783 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Akira Kurosawa - 1950 - Rashomon Movies Review
		Rashomon is an enigma, a puzzle to be considered time and again, as the viewer continues to search for the ultimate truth.
		The wife is not the meek and simple child her husband and Tajomaru believe her to be, the samurai isn’t a noble warrior, Tajomaru isn’t a great bandit, and the woodcutter isn’t the innocent bystander sickened by depravity.
		Because of this, Rashomon is a film that lingers with the viewer long after its ended—and one that lends itself to repeated viewings quite well.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10002934 (1174 words)

	DVD review of Rashomon - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of course, “Rashomon” is more than 50 years old, so it’s possible that none of the negatives that exist are in pristine condition.
		“Rashomon” is one of the most famous and most influential of Japanese films, so Criterion has released a fine DVD special edition of the movie.
		While I appreciate the value of “Rashomon” in cinema, I feel that the catalytic event--that of the rape of the noblewoman and the death of her husband--does not create a compelling atmosphere.
	www.dvdtown.com /reviewspec.asp?reviewid=1075 (974 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Rashomon: Criterion Collection DVD Review
		I was introduced to Rashomon and the world of Akira Kurosawa when I was in High School.
		Rashomon (based on the short stories "Rashomon" and "In A Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa) is a story about the nature of reality.
		We start in the present, at the gate of Rashomon, where the woodcutter and a priest think about the events of three days ago.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/r/rashomon_a.htm (648 words)

	Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The "Rashomon Principle," that truth is relative, subject to different points of view.
		Rashomon Gate, built in 789 AD and once the proud symbol for the achievements of Heian culture, is now the symbol of the social and moral decay of Japanese civilization and culture.
		Focusing less on Japanese history and culture and more on the "Rashomon Principle" as it relates to the students' own lives, I used it effectively with a 10th-grade, low-ability class.
	www.aems.uiuc.edu /html/ChalkGuides/Rashomon.html (490 words)

	Rashômon (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rashomon gets masterful when in one instant there is literally a different point of view: the camera takes another position to shoot the same sequence, thereby forcing the audience to reconsider what they just saw.
		That is the sort of storytelling that the supposed masters of cinema in our time yet have to equal, or try to copy when they fail.
		The use of (non-original) music in my opinion reveals a certain interest for western influence, not only in Rashomon, but also in Kurosawa's forthcoming films, and is probably why his films were so influential on western filmmakers too.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0042876 (555 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Criterion deserves praise for it's presentation of Kurosawa's "Rashomon." Kazuo Miyagawa's cinematography is incredible in it's use of camera movement, light, shadows, rain and wind effects.
		We learn from "Rashomon" is that we all have our own personal vision of "reality." In this study of human nature, the characters see what they want to believe.
		Rashomon's Byzantine plot structure was unique at the time, and still feels fresh over half a century down the line.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6303073107 (1441 words)

	Releases :: Moravian College Theater Company presents Rashomon
		Rashomon is the story of a quest for truth.
		Three travelers, a Buddhist priest, a woodcutter and a wigmaker have taken shelter from a storm beneath the old Rashomon gate.
		As they argue over a recent crime in which a bandit has murdered a Samurai warrior and raped his wife, the stories told by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband (via a medium) are acted out.
	www.moravian.edu /news/releases/2004/121.htm (322 words)

	Great Performances . Kurosawa . RASHOMON \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then I remembered the Akutagawa story "Rashomon." Like "In a Grove," it was set in the Heian period (794-1184).
		Since the advent of the talkies in the 1930's, I felt, we had misplaced and forgotten what was so wonderful about the old silent movies.
		RASHOMON would be my testing ground, the place where I could apply the ideas and wishes growing out of my silent-film research.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/rashomon.html (561 words)

	DVD of the Week: (3/27/2002): Rashomon
		Even people who have never heard the name "Kurosawa" know of "Rashomon syndrome." And like Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (which was to follow four years later), Rashomon became more than just one of Kurosawa's greatest movies, but also a model for many other movies to follow, some of them good and some of them awful.
		Rashomon turned out to be the movie to "break" Japanese films into the world cinema market, but with unexpected consequences: many people assumed all Japanese movies were structured in a similarly unique fashion.
		Rashomon was derived from a pair of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of Japan's most revered authors.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2002/03-27-2002.htm (1043 words)

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