The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove are seen from four different perspectives. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know it. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura, the spellbinding psychological thriller won the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and the Honorary Foreign Language Film Award at the 1952 Academy Awards®. DIR/SCR Akira Kurosawa; SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, from the short stories “Rashomon” and “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; PROD Minoru Jingo. Japan, 1950, b&w, 88 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
We’ll meet in the theater lobby at 7:00pm for a 7:10 curtain.
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The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove are seen from four different perspectives. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know it. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura, the spellbinding psychological thriller won the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and the Honorary Foreign Language Film Award at the 1952 Academy Awards®. DIR/SCR Akira Kurosawa; SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, from the short stories “Rashomon” and “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; PROD Minoru Jingo. Japan, 1950, b&w, 88 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
We’ll meet in the theater lobby at 7:00pm for a 7:10 curtain.
Village members: Please log into the Member Portal and click on the Calendar.
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