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	Film/Classics: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some critics have, with good reason, criticized the "happy" ending of the film, but virtually all have correctly noted that the film's impact on the viewer's conscientiousness and conscience is immense.
		Some of these critics have argued that the film's message is that individuals can only see themselves in one, favorable, light, while others, more on target, expound on the film's upsetting of the basic underpinings of knowledge and the foundations of the notions of truth.
		"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)

	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.
		Thus, the main body of the film is taken from 'In a Grove', Incorporated into a framework based on 'Rashomon', and structured so that the framing story and the personal versions of the rape and the death take their meaning from their juxtaposition in a newly created context.
		The film's style is designed around the use of a moving camera that continually clarifies to the viewer that the angle of perception in a particular version belongs only to the speaker.
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /FilmIdea.html (6065 words)

	Rashomon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rashomon is a Leeds-based improvised music ensemble headed by Richard Ormrod.
		rashomon effect, the effect of the subjective perception of an event's eyewitnesses, which when applied to their recollection, enable them to produce numerous different but equally plausible accounts of said event.
		Rashomon, a gate summoned within the japanese anime Naruto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rashomon (239 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.
		Consistent with the overall design of the film, the censoring eyes of the Occupation are formally inscribed on the film's textual surface as structural absence.
		Hollywood films are notorious for turning any tragedy and bleak drama into a happy ending, and the conclusions of "Rashomon" are not an exception as Takashi Shimura walks from the temple with hope in his eyes at the conclusion.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/kurorasho.html (1171 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Adaptation of the week: Rashomon (1950)
		He began writing short stories, one of which, Rashomon, was published in a university magazine when he was 17.
		The story In a Grove, which provides most of the content for the film of Rashomon, was published in 1922.
		Rashomon itself is a bizarre tale set in an old gatehouse.
	film.guardian.co.uk /adaptation/story/0,,1328268,00.html (534 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Rashomon (1950)
		This is a theme adeptly demonstrated by Rashomon, a murder mystery of sorts in which different accounts of a series of events are presented, all of which conflict with each other.
		Rashomon cuts everything out that isn't powerful and overflowing, to the point where jaded viewers might perceive it as over the top.
		But that's missing the point, because ultimately the film is still truthful about human nature and desires, and it is in exaggerating them that these things break free from the trappings of mundane practicality to be experienced and studied.
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	MDRashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rashomon takes place in an untouched forest, filled with beautiful trees and vines, but in fact, it was also infested with mountain leeches, which dropped out of the trees and crawled out of the soil in search of blood.
		Japanese critics thought the film was not an adequate adaptation of the stories, that the language was too rough (and that the bandit had too ornate a vocabulary) and that the script was too complicated.
		The film’s title has entered the language, both in works of art and in actual court cases, as an expression for conflicting eyewitness accounts of a single event.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDRashomon.htm (1423 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Rashomon Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 film is presented full screen (in its 1.33:1 theatrical aspect ratio) with monaural audio and optional English subtitles or an English-dubbed soundtrack.
		Seeing a film like this once is merely skimming the surface, and there will certainly be more viewings for me in the near future.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /rashomon.html (813 words)

	Rashomon > Red Beard > DVD Reviews > Kurosawa Akira Toho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film almost never saw the screen as executives at the film company Daiei Co. Ltd hesitated to present it internationally, fearing the in their eyes confusing storyline would reflect badly on them.
		Rashomon is also part of this year's collaboration between The Criterion Collection and The Sundance Channel, which is presenting the film at these times with several screenings.
		The film is never ceasing to bind the viewer to the story; this is mostly due to the films fluent and well-paced narrative that is aided by, again, startling photography.
	www.dvdscan.com /rashomon.htm (1073 words)

	Rashomon
		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.
		The first, "In a Grove,"; provides the basis for the main body of the film; the second, "Rashomon" (the name of the ruined stone gate), is the framing story; the two are brilliantly tied together by the woodcutter's narration of the final version of the story.
		Rashomon follows the same pattern: the first three "full" versions of the story (the bandit's, the wife's, the nobleman's)— which certainly contain their longeurs—are best read as the equally necessary preliminary to the explosion of savage farce in the woodcutter's version.
	www.filmreference.com /Films-Pi-Ra/Rashomon.html (1574 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Rashomon: Criterion Collection DVD Review
		At the time, I had a budding interest in film, but I lacked the knowledge of (or, for that matter, the interest in) the "classics." I was intrigued when I heard what the plot of Rashomon was.
		Rashomon (based on the short stories "Rashomon" and "In A Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa) is a story about the nature of reality.
		This film is a remarkable bit of filmmaking, combining a simple, yet very deep story of reality with a striking, yet natural visual sense.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/r/rashomon_a.htm (648 words)

	Great Performances . Kurosawa . RASHOMON \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I had to forage for old films, and try to remember the structure of those I had seen as a boy, ruminating over the esthetics that had made them special.
		RASHOMON would be my testing ground, the place where I could apply the ideas and wishes growing out of my silent-film research.
		In the film, people going astray in the thicket of their hearts would wander into a wider wilderness, so I moved the setting to a large forest.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/rashomon.html (561 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Rashomon: The Criterion Collection
		From the lengthy scenes of the woodcutter walking in the woods where light and shadow play ominously (a sequence that almost is like a silent film in its technique) to the contrasting duels (one noble, the other messy), the film is the work of artists fully in command of their talent.
		The great art-house films of the '50s — which people still talk about, still revive in rep theaters or on DVD, still write about in critical texts — still serve as hallmarks of what great film art can be.
		Films from directors as diverse as Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Antonioni, Bergman, and Wajda, are born of a grappling with the same issues of meaning and purpose that Sartre and his disciples mulled over in their bulky tomes.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/r/rashomon_cc.shtml (1673 words)

	rashomon
		The term for Rashomon became incorporated into the everyday language, and Japanese films became a regular part of the western world's film culture mainly because of this film.
		This was a unique filming device used by Kurosawa of zooming in on the character when telling his or her version, as each had a different rhythm that the camera underscored by revealing the particular mood of the storyteller.
		The film has not aged that well, though it seems to still have power; but, in my opinion, it is not the masterpiece it was once thought of.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/rashomon.htm (1549 words)

	Rashomon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film won a Golden Lion Award at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, and is widely credited to have introduced both Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to Western audiences.
		The film is also notable as an instance in which the camera "acts," or plays an active and important role in the story or its symbolism.
		It is an interesting text to be included, because the girl's role as innocent bystander is called into question at the end of the film, as she may have actively influenced some of the events of the film (much like the samurai's wife in Kurosawa's film).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rashomon_(film) (3237 words)

	EUFS: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film depicts a tale of rape and murder in feudal Japan which is recounted after the fact, and thus cinematically created, from the perspective of the chief parties.
		The film begins and ends with a party of three people sheltering from the rain, one recounting the story to the others and thus framing the events within greater Japan.
		The film is one of Kurosawa’s earliest and along with Stray Dog really began his golden period of filmmaking demonstrating his flair for drawing performances from actors and his immense originality in camerawork.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/rashomon.html (272 words)

	Rashomon
		Rashomon, however, is a relatively early work and contains the rapid, kinetic editing that is often associated with its director.
		This counts towards realism but may also suggest the film’s theme that the facts cannot be seen in fl-and-white absolutes but rather should be viewed in more problematic, gray uncertainties where truth and fiction are side by side.
		The film suggests that it is admirable and necessary to look for the good in people rather than celebrating their wickedness.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Bungalow/1204/rashomon.htm (2047 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		The film opens to a rainy scene at the Rashômon, the illustrious southern entrance to Kyoto during the height of the Heian period (794-1192).
		Likewise the heavy rain throughout the film emphasizes the existential dread of the characters.
		Originally a convention of silent films, triangular composition involves the inclusion of three characters within a single frame, elucidating the relationships and reinforcing the plot of the film.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue9/rashomon.html (2784 words)

	FRYS.com \| Criterion Collection-DVD
		This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness.
		Rashomon's winning the Golden Lion in the 1951 Venice Film Festival is one of the key events of world cinema.
		Though most of Rashomon is adapted from two short stories by famously misanthropic Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kurosawa himself penned the final sequence, an elegant summation of his signature humanism.
	www.outpost.com /product/3262381 (676 words)

	rashomonr
		Apart from that flaw, this is a quietly impassioned “Rashomon.” Gwaltney and set designer Don Hess have devised a superb use of the Empire Theater’s space—creating an extreme thrust stage with the theater’s modular seating so that the alternating action between the upstage Rashomon Gate and the downstage courtroom and forest scenes flow seamlessly.
		Demonstrating the often elastic nature of truth, Fay and Michael Kanin's tightly crafted Rashomon is an intriguing exercise in shifting perspectives--one that deals out few concrete facts, instead dwelling more on man's tendency to twist the truth and alter reality to suit his own needs.
		Presented as a conversation between three men at a Japanese temple gate, the script plays out as a murder mystery of sorts: a young samurai and his wife are accosted by a bandit in the forest, the wife is raped, and the samurai is murdered.
	www.rudeguerrilla.org /1999season/Rashomon/rashomonR.html (1808 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: Topics in Film
		In the film’s famous final sequence, the narrative space of the story is revisited in the absence of its characters, suggesting perhaps, as Georges Sadoul has noted, the nature of solitude as man’s accustomed state.
		One of Dorothy Arzner’s earliest films as a director, this romantic comedy was made for Paramount as a vehicle for its star, Clara Bow.
		One of the first Japanese films to receive worldwide acclaim, Rashomon is the twelfth-century tale of a murder told from the multiple, irreconcilable perspectives of the crime’s participants and witnesses.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/05_spring/frames.html (823 words)

	Amazon.com: Rashomon: Video: Toshirô Mifune,Machiko Kyô,Masayuki Mori,Takashi Shimura,Minoru Chiaki,Kichijiro ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film Rashomon was Western film audiences' first real exposure to the films of Kurosawa Akira and it ignited the flame of interest in Kurosawa's films for decades to come.
		Today, however, RASHOMON is generally considered to be the film that introduced both master director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to the west; it is also often cited as the film that prompted The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create an award for Best Foreign Language film.
		Some have criticized the film for seeming to state that there is no such thing as ultimate truth, but RASHOMON is more complex than this: it is essentially a meditation on our inability, be it deliberate or unintentional, to reach more than an approximation of ultimate truth due to the very nature of humanity itself.
	www.amazon.com /Rashomon-Toshir%C3%B4-Mifune/dp/6303073107 (2985 words)

	The Japan Project - Japanese Culture
		"Rashomon" is an eerie tale of a desperate old woman surviving by pilfering the hair of corpses.
		"Rashomon," which is set in the late twelfth century, concerns a crucial decision in the life of a male servant who has recently been dismissed by his master.
		In 1915, he published his arresting psychological novella Rashomon, which was to gain international recognition and eventually become a hugely successful film by Kurosawa.
	www.globaled.org /japanproject/lessons/lesson06_1.php (1875 words)

	Rashomon
		Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshirô Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyô), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura).
		Rashomon is laudable foremost for its very use of its medium, timelessly engaging, and as singularly influential as any film in history.
		The film is not only a landmark for being one of the most philosophical and brilliant films of all time, but is also one of the most entertaining.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/rashomon (760 words)

	Rashômon (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To have a film that holds the coveted title of being the reason that the "Best Foreign Film" category was created for the Oscars is one thing, but to be able to back up that myth with a powerful film that speaks both about humanity and the strength of truth is a whole new angle.
		In the same sense, sometimes the most popular of those foreign films eventually become Oscar contenders, not because they are worthy enough, but because studios had the funds to allow bigger distribution to audiences, thus allowing popularity to do the rest.
		The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa took many bold steps with this film (pointing his camera at the sun, filming deep within the jungle, and the mockery of truth), that it is unlikely that you could go to a modern day Hollywood film without seeing one of these techniques being "borrowed".
	www.imdb.com /Title?0042876 (1081 words)

	DVD Review - Rashomon (Criterion)
		You see, the man's wife was found hiding in a temple, and when she was brought to the court to tell her story, she contradicted everything Tajomuru had to say.
		The picture quality is very, very good for a film of its age and country of origin.
		Along with excerpts from books about Kurosawa, and the standard essays, the two original stories this film is based on are reprinted here in their entirety.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/rashomoncriterion.html (1460 words)

	Rashomon Film Review - Time Out Film
		If it weren't for the closing spasm of gratuitous, humanist optimism, Rashomon could be warmly recommended as one of Kurosawa's most inventive and sustained achievements.
		The main part of the film, set in 12th century Kyoto, offers four mutually contradictory versions of an ambush, rape and murder, each through the eyes of one of those involved.
		The film is much less formally daring than its literary source, but its virtues are still plentiful: Kurosawa's visual style at its most muscular, rhythmically nuanced editing, and excellent performances.
	www.timeout.com /film/76426.html (146 words)

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