I kind of feel like these movies pivot a lot between super serious and silly. In my mind It doesn’t really compute and I don’t really like it that much. They just aren’t my style and don’t tickle my fancy at all. I also felt like I watched the same thing 4 different times which I did, imma pass on this one.

I kind of feel like these movies pivot a lot between super serious and silly. In my mind It doesn’t really compute and I don’t really like it that much. They just aren’t my style and don’t tickle my fancy at all. I also felt like I watched the same thing 4 different times which I did, imma pass on this one.

My Lord, Toshirō Mifune puts up an all time performance in this one. Only my second Kurosawa film (planning to watch more over Spring break), Rashomon is an interesting psychological look at the human desire of lying to appear a certain way towards people.

Following a format rarely seen in films before 1950, Rashomon is 86 minutes worth of four testimonies of the murder of a samurai, and the presumed rape of his wife. Of the four testimonies, we get a policeman who found the body, a bandit, the wife, and the dead samurai via a miko (I had to look it up lol). The four testimonies never reach a clear conclusion, leaving a woodcutter, commoner and a priest to determine the verdict.

Kurosawa introduces some incredible camera movements and shots. Along with its unique storytelling and its great performances all around from Toshirō Mifune to Machiko Kyô to Takashi Shimura, Rashomon is an incredible film in a career filled of them from Akira Kurosawa.

My Lord, Toshirō Mifune puts up an all time performance in this one. Only my second Kurosawa film (planning to watch more over Spring break), Rashomon is an interesting psychological look at the human desire of lying to appear a certain way towards people.

Following a format rarely seen in films before 1950, Rashomon is 86 minutes worth of four testimonies of the murder of a samurai, and the presumed rape of his wife. Of the four testimonies, we get a policeman who found the body, a bandit, the wife, and the dead samurai via a miko (I had to look it up lol). The four testimonies never reach a clear conclusion, leaving a woodcutter, commoner and a priest to determine the verdict.

Kurosawa introduces some incredible camera movements and shots. Along with its unique storytelling and its great performances all around from Toshirō Mifune to Machiko Kyô to Takashi Shimura, Rashomon is an incredible film in a career filled of them from Akira Kurosawa.

“Thanks to you, I think I can keep my faith in man”

“Thanks to you, I think I can keep my faith in man”

first akira kurosawa film

first akira kurosawa film

My first Akira Kurosawa movie, can't wait to watch more

My first Akira Kurosawa movie, can't wait to watch more