Rashomon (1950)

Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was nominated for an Academy Award and won another 7 awards, and 2 nominations. I was most interested in what the correct story was, the film left it up to the viewers personal interpretation. I really found that to be appealing. The theme is the unreliability of eyewitness accounts. The movie was very low grade. It wasn’t anything special. Which is to be expected for a movie made that long ago. It was significant because once again it introduced the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to western audiences. It was aimed at a mature demographic due to the amount of violence.