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	SARUDAMA.COM: Japanese Movie Reviews: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The movie is based on the novel "Yabu no naka (In a Grove)" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and presents a tale wherein truth appears to be merely in the eye of the beholder.
		Although the movie does attempt to end with a glimmer of hope through the monk's discovery of an orphaned infant and the woodcutter's selfless willingness to take the infant home and care for it, this glimmer is only dim gray at best against the rather dark human malaise permeating this tale.
		Rashomon was remade by director Marin Ritt in 1964 as "Outrage" starring Paul Newman as the bandit (from Mexico), Claire Bloom as the woman he allegedly rapes, Laurence Harvey as her husband, and Edward G. Robinson as the narrator.
	www.sarudama.com /movies/rashomon.shtml (763 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)

	Film/Classics: Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The movie has dramatically switched from an almost drab historic piece to a riveting, scary and exotically intriguing adventure and melodrama culminating in the lifting of the hat's veil by the woman, played by Machiko Iyo.
		"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)

	MDRashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rashomon was based on two short stories by symbolist writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, an author popular in early 20th century Japan.
		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.
		In Rashomon, Bosley Crowther in his New York Times review wrote that Mifune played the bandit with “terrifying wildness and hot brutality.” The director and his cast passed the time watching movies while waiting for the set to be built in Kyoto.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDRashomon.htm (1423 words)

	Rashomon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rashomon can be said to have introduced Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to Western audiences, and is considered one of his masterpieces.
		The 1964 western movie The Outrage, which starred Paul Newman, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson, was a remake of Rashomon.
		In his essay "Rashomon", Tadao Sato suggests that the film (unusually) uses sunlight to symbolize evil and sin in the film, arguing that the wife gives in to the bandit's desires when she sees the sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rashomon_(movie) (3243 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Rashomon
		RASHOMON is often referenced as one of the most important and most influential films in the history of cinema.
		But RASHOMON is nevertheless the film that shows its age, and its impact might not be as powerful as it was in early 1950s.
		However, despite all of those flaws, RASHOMON still presents us with a great cinematic talent at work, and its place in film histories is well justified, same as its imprint in various nations' vocabularies.
	all-reviews.com /videos-4/rashomon.htm (767 words)

	Rashomon (movie)
		Rashomon (羅生門) is a Japanese motion picture made in 1950 by director Akira Kurosawa.
		Rashomon was one of three films on which Kurosawa collaborated with master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
		Because of the film's success, the word "Rashomon" has come to refer to (in English and in other languages) a situation wherein the truth of an event becomes difficult to verify due to the conflicting nature of different witnesses.
	www.mik.fastload.org /ra/Rashomon_(movie).html (177 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Rashomon (xhtml)
		In a sense, "Rashomon" is a victim of its success, as Stuart Galbraith IV writes in The Emperor and the Wolf, his comprehensive new study of the lives and films of Kurosawa and his favorite actor, Toshiro Mifune.
		The genius of "Rashomon" is that all of the flashbacks are both true and false.
		The wonder of "Rashomon" is that while the shadowplay of truth and memory is going on, we are absorbed by what we trust is an unfolding story.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020526/REVIEWS08/205260301/1023 (1257 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Rashomon
		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.
		In the end, the truth is not revealed, or at least seems to be hidden still, the message maybe the fact that to lie is human, or that every perception is different from person to person, or that people involved in an uncomfortable matter tend to try to alter the opinions of others.
	www.cityonfire.com /japanese/rashomon.html (783 words)

	IGN: Rashomon (The Criterion Collection) Review
		Even though the movie takes its name from the story Rashomon, most of its narrative is actually based on Akutagawa's Yabu no Naka (In a Grove), which tells the story of a crime through seven different testimonials.
		Rashomon is entertaining to watch from the beginning to the end, thanks to its unpredictable and compelling storytelling, but also to its impressive visuals.
		Past Criterion releases of Kurosawa movies have traditionally been light on the extras (quite a disappointment considering the number of documentaries that exist about Kurosawa and the many movies his films have inspired), but Rashomon is a step in the right direction.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/358/358134p1.html (1700 words)

	Rashomon - DVD Movie Central
		In a sense, each one is pleading for us to believe his or her version of the story, resulting in an even more delightful confusion about the true nature of the events.
		Rashomon cemented the 40 year old Kurosawa’s international reputation as a master filmmaker, and a half century later, is still revered by many as Japan’s most important film.
		Rashomon is a true classic of world cinema as well as one of the most influential films ever made.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/rashomon.htm (1128 words)

	Rashomon: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
		Some movies have a dual message like Apocalypse Now, which due to the combination of screenwriter (conservative) John Milius and director (liberal) Francis Coppola manages to simultaneously embrace and condemn the nature of war.
		But whether conservative or liberal the message of a movie with political aspirations is not too difficult to comprehend; Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is very obviously an anti-union (some would say due to the time period anti-Communist) film.
		But sometimes a movie's message is in the eye of the beholder and can be championed by both conservatives and liberals of advocating their message.
	rashomon.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_rashomon_archive.html (5754 words)

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		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).
		Ironically, the movie itself is an illustration of this, for it was director Akira Kurosowa's vanity (he feared his story was too dark) that caused him to tack on an "upbeat" ending—not in either of Ryunosuke's stories—in which the woodcutter rescues an abandoned infant, and thereby restores the possibility of a selfless human act.
	shows.vtheatre.net /kurosawa.html (1948 words)

	Rashomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is another movie that has been remade The Outrage this time Paul Newman played the main character.
		This is a movie that is produced with both philosophical and psychological overtones trying to explore the human soul.
		The movie is made up of flashbacks and told from the view point of the woman raped, the man murdered the bandit and one of the men sheltering from the rain.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /ian.mcintosh/movies/Rashomon.htm (174 words)

	Rashômon (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story he used for Rashomon is now, like Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, and Yojimbo, a near archetype that at this point in the history of film has become formula and common knowledge for writers and directors.
		In that sense, Rashomon is as important and entertaining as a film as Citizen Kane, Battleship Potemkin, Rear Window, or Open City.
		A key ingredient to the success of Rashomon, is that the recollections given to the courts by the woman, the bandit, the as well as the four in discussion, is that their emotions reveal their humanity, even if their details reveal nothing, or everything.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0042876 (753 words)

	Amazon.com: Rashomon - Criterion Collection: DVD: Toshiro Mifune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film examines truth, in the context of a rape and murder in 12th Century Japan, from four different perspectives; a woodcutter who witnessed the whole incident yet was afraid to report it, the bandit who committed the crime, the murdered man's ghost (through a medium) and the rape victim (the murdered man's wife).
		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.
	amazon.com /Rashomon-Criterion-Collection-Toshiro-Mifune/dp/B00003CXC6 (2615 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Rashomon (1950)
		Kurosawa scholarship has become voluminous, and Rashomon is one of its principal subjects; here's a movie that is easy to over-intellectualize and hence dismiss as nothing more than an exercise in filmmaking point of view.
		Rashomon is one of those movies whose influence is so profound that laudatory words in a DVD review can hardly do it justice.
		Rashomon tells the story of the murder of a 12th-century samurai in the Japanese forest, and here is all we know for sure: a bandit, the famous Tajomaru, spies the samurai and his wife, ties up the samurai and rapes the woman, and the samurai ends up dead.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3297 (1746 words)

	Movie Poop Shoot
		Akira Kurosawa's legendary and riveting RASHOMON is a totally and doubly (or even triply) subjective experience — everything we see beyond the framing sequence set at the Rashomon gate in a torrential downpour, is filtered through the consciousness of a character, who is, in turn, recounting the stories of three other people.
		RASHOMON says a great deal about how its characters see their world, but in forcing us to confront those perspectives, it says even more about how we see ours.
		This is not to say the movie isn't well-made; it would not work as well as it does if it wasn't fastidiously designed, sumptuously produced, and cannily acted (not to mention superbly danced by Swayze and Grey).
	moviepoopshoot.com /gbu/72.html (2077 words)

	Rashomon DVD at Video Universe
		A landmark of international cinema, RASHOMON won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, bringing both Kurosawa--and Japanese film in general--to the attention of Western audiences.
		Additional cast members: Kichijiro Ueda (The Commoner); Fumiko Homma (The Medium) Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival and an Honorary Academy Award -- it was voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951 (statuette).
		"Rashomon" is the film that established Kurosawa on the international art house circuit.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/2888967/a/Rashomon.htm (668 words)

	Rashomon: Criterion DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
		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.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/r/rashomon.htm (735 words)

	rashomon - movie and tv vault reviews at videovista.net
		Rashomon is classy Japanese cinema by one of the world's greatest directors, and it examines this principle with skill, insight and superb drama: how reality is very often highly subjective, and wholly dependent on flawed human perceptions - coloured by our prejudicial emotions.
		Although the concept is straightforward, the narrative is a jigsaw puzzle of four different interpretations by three participants and one bystander to a rape and a murder (or suicide?).
		It's probably true that some audiences will find Rashomon slow moving, and repetitive, but it's also worth noting that even those reviews expressing a measure of disdain for pace and structure found other things of value.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/mar03/rashomon.html (313 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Rashomon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Despite gazillions of dollars being spent by Hollywood advertising, movies in good old times movies used to have much bigger social impact than today.
		At least this is impression a linguist might get from RASHOMON, 1950 drama directed by great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
		The woodcutter has witnessed those events and his account is different from other three.
	www.all-reviews.com.cob-web.org:8888 /videos-4/rashomon.htm (767 words)

	Rashomon--The Lybarger Links Review
		Considering the historical importance of the movie (filmmakers as diverse as Kansas City native Robert Altman and Bengali director Satyajit Ray have cited "Rashomon" as an influence), it's refreshing that the extras that come with the new Criterion Collection edition are actually worth checking out.
		Although "Rashomon" is much more intimate in scope than Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," the movie still was difficult to make because it was filmed in an actual forest teeming with mountain leeches.
		The concerns were unwarranted because the movie became a hit at home and a sensation abroad.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/rashomon.htm (722 words)

	Rashomon
		Their presentations of the testimony of each of the persons involved in the crime make it apparent, however, that each of the individuals involved saw the events in which he was participating in a different way than had the others, or, at the least, represented those events very differently.
		For example, in the story told by the murdered man, which is related by a medium, the viewer sees how the man perceives himself as a completely innocent victim, betrayed even by his wife, who is revealed as a faithless creature who callously begs the robber to murder her husband and take her with him.
		Fortunately, the movie's narrative is so enthralling that it always keeps this fault from becoming a crippling problem.
	www.movierapture.com /rashomon.htm (667 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		If it's simply a movie addressed to white and fl American teenagers—which is apparently how some American critics, none of them teenagers, choose to regard it—it might easily be accused of racial and ethnic simplifications that don't move far beyond cartooning.
		The blunt and dark feelings expressed in that movie about racial violence, capitalism, religious hypocrisy, and frontier madness went so far, even when it was pitched as farce or satire, that a significant portion of the American public recoiled from it.
		The movie's fascination with Ghost Dog never gives the character enough of a back story to make us believe in him as something more than a cultural premise—which, for that matter, is just about all that Alain Delon was in Melville's Le samourai.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2000/0300/000317.html (1958 words)

	Rashomon - Japanese movie by Akira Kurosawa
		Rashomon (羅生門 or 羅城門 Rajyomon) is one of gates in Heijyokyo and consequently Heiankyo, both are now Kyoto.
		Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese motion picture by Akira Kurosawa.
		Rashomon is also a 1915 Japanese novel written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
	www.japan-101.com /entertainment/rashomon.htm (121 words)

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