Rashomon

Perhaps Kurosawa's most deeply influential film and winner of the Academy Award for best foreign film, Rashomon revolutionized how stories can be told in visual terms.

The film depicts different versions of the "same" event through flashbacks of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife. Each character recounts what happened from his or her point of view; even the ghost of the dead samurai is given a voice, and yet none of them is definitive, and none is necessarily more true or false than any of the others. It's one of the most radically open-ended films ever made. With Toshiro Mifune. (88 mins., 35mm)

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