Rashomon
1950
***
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Noriko Honma, Daisuke Katō, Kichijiro Ueda
After a bandit is arrested for murdering a samurai and assaulting his wife, the perpetrator and the witnesses give contradictory accounts of the events. Akira Kurosawa's influential drama about the subjectivity of truth explores the grey area of human perception and morality. The premise is intriguing and it's nicely shot, but the film is a bit clunky and repetitive, and some of the performances are hammy.
